A history of the global economy the inevitable accident
Providing an exceptional overview and analysis of the global economy, from the origins of Homo sapiens to the present day, Colin White explores our past to help understand our economic future. He veers away from traditional Eurocentric approaches, providing a truly global scope for readers. A Histor...
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Northampton, MA
Edward Elgar Pub., Inc.
2018, 2018
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Preface
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. Finding a common economic pathway
- 2. Transitions and revolutions
- Part II: Beginnings: place and people
- 3. Changing contexts
- 4. The past within us
- 5. The dynamic forager
- Part III: The agricultural phase, from 15000 BC to 1800 AD
- 6. Asking the wrong questions
- 7. The agricultural revolution: 15000BC - 0
- 8. Innovativeness in agrarian civilisations: 15000BC - 1800AD
- Part IV: Empires and the rise of agrarian civilisations
- 9. The emergence of complex political organisation
- 10. First civilisations 11. The rise of an eastern agrarian civilisation: China
- 12. Imperialism moves westward
- 13. Imperial structures and their finite lifetimes
- 14. A natural experiment - the Americas
- Part V: Commerce as an enabler of modern economic development
- 15. The building of a global world: trade systems before 1500
- 16. The circle completed: 1500-1800
- 17. The integration of the global economy: 1700-1900
- 18. Creative innovativeness in full bloom
- Part VI: The emergence of the modern economy
- 19. The inception of modern economic development
- 20. Stage one - the Industrial revolution in Britain
- 21. More industrial revolutions
- 22. The Asian miracle?
- Part VII: Where are we at?
- 23. Stage two of modern economic development: the service revolution
- 24. Looking backwards in order to peer forwards
- Index