How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor - Hardcover

Reinert, Erik S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845293266 ISBN 13: 9781845293260

Verlag: Constable, 2007

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Reseña del editor:

How Rich Countries Got Rich is a narrative history of modern economic development from the Italian Renaissance to the present day.


In it Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable success, orthodox development economists have largely ignored this approach and insisted instead on the importance of free trade.

Reinert presents a strongly revisionist history of economics and shows how the discipline has long been torn between the continental Renaissance tradition on one hand and the free market theories of English and later American economics on the other. He argues that our economies were founded on protectionism and state activism and could only later afford the luxury of free trade. When our leaders come to lecture poor countries on the right road to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the real history of mass affluence.

Biografía del autor:

Erik S. Reinert, author of Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality: An Alternative Perspective (2004), is Professor of Technology, Governance and Development Strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and President of The Other Canon Foundation, Norway. He is one of the world's leading heterodox development economists and is based in Norway.

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• Verlag: Constable
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845293266
• ISBN 13: 9781845293260
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224