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008			180309s2011 enka b 001 0 eng d
010			_a2011-410493
020			_a9780199596652 _q(paperback) :
020			_a0199596654 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn726821252
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082			_a330.9 ALL
100	1		_aAllen, Robert C., _d1947- _eauthor
245	1	0	_aGlobal economic history : _ba very short introduction / _cRobert C. Allen.,
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2011.
300			_axiv, 170 pages : _billustrations ; _c18 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
490	1		_aVery short introductions ; _v282.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 154-162) and index.
505	0		_aThe great divergence -- The rise of the West -- The Industrial Revolution -- The ascent of the rich -- The great empires -- The Americas -- Africa -- The standard model and late industrialization -- Big Push industrialization.
520			_aWhy are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen shows how the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. Allen shows how the industrial revolution was Britain's path-breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations, pursuing four policies--creating a national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, creating banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and promoting mass education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. A few countries--Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China--have caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that has achieved rapid growth through coordinated investment. -- Book Description.
650		0	_aEconomic history.
650		0	_aEconomic indicators.
830		0	_aVery short introductions ; _v282.
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