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Written by a pioneer in the quantitative and macroeconomic analysis of economic history, this book combines qualitative histories with quantitative data. It seeks a new understanding of the forces of economic growth and development by taking the ultimate long view - the whole of the last millennium -and looking to the future.

Macroeconomics --- World history --- Economic history. --- Economic history --- Histoire économique --- AA / International- internationaal --- 331.100 --- 338 <09> --- 330.9 --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Economische geschiedenis --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Histoire économique --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- E-books

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From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of multiple independent but often interacting stimuli such as internal competition over resources, European expansion, international trade, globalisation and war. The essays offer a comparative framework for re-examining the causes of economic development across this period and show, for instance, the central role that the more effective fiscal systems of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played in the divergence of east and west as well as the very different paths to modernisation taken across the world.

World history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- AA / International- internationaal --- finances publiques histoire --- 331.100 --- 331.161.0 --- openbare financien geschiedenis --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën: agemeenheden. --- Fiscal policy --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- History. --- Economic History. --- Business & economics --- Economic history. --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- History --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën: agemeenheden --- Government policy --- Arts and Humanities

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This study examines how certain countries have achieved, at some period in their history, economic superiority over other nations. The author explores not only the factors that lead to this primacy, but also the circumstances that bring the primacy to an end.

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Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past two years there has grown an important new movement that has decided to tackle those who think they run economics head-on. This is the Post-autistic Economics Network.The PAE Network started in

AA / International- internationaal --- 331.00 --- 330.00 --- 331.100 --- Economische bewegingen: algemeenheden. --- Economische en sociale theorieën: algemeenheden. --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- macro-economie --- economie --- economische leerstelsels --- Economics --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economische en sociale theorieën: algemeenheden --- Economische bewegingen: algemeenheden --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden

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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an important geographic location. The book chronicles the sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and Colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the United States, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities are not always productive and may even sabotage prosperity. They examine the institutions and restrictions that have enabled or impeded innovation, and the incentives for the adoption and dissemination of inventions. They also describe the wide variations in global entrepreneurial activity during different historical periods and the similarities in development, as well as entrepreneurship's role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing contemporary entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society. The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who seek an understanding of innovation's central place in our world.

Entrepreneurship --- History --- -338.0409 --- World history --- 331.100 --- 338.040 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Ondernemingen: algemeenheden --- E-books --- Commerce. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- History. --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Entrepreneurship - History