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Escaping poverty : the origins of modern economic growth / Peer Vries.

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and th...

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Main Author: Vries, P. H. H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Goettingen : [Vienna] : V & R Unipress ; Vienna University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Economic development > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Poverty > China > History.
China > Economic conditions > 1644-1912.
Comparative economics.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Poverty.
China.
Great Britain.
Electronic book.
History.

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Call Number: HC254.5 .G75 2012
HC254.5 .G75 2012 Available

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