Explaining Long-Term Economic Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-55784-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 131 g

Reihe: New Studies in Economic and Social History

This book provides an introduction to, and critical review of, the competing models that have been developed to explain long-term and large-scale economic change. The modern global pattern of production and distribution has its origins in the historical heritage of component societies and in their physical difference. Attempts to explain the social and economic dynamics which have produced this pattern are usually couched in the form of 'models'. These theoretical constructions are designed to reduce the infinite variety of historical experience to manageable proportions for analytical purposes and look primarily at causal factors seen to have been crucial in the process of change and development. This book examines and illustrates these factors and the various established models used to explain long-term economic change, with emphasis on European and Asian history over the early modern period, c. 1400-1800.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, J. L.

Kirby, Maurice

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Models, theories and history; 2. Market explanations of economic change; 3. The environment; 4. Population: the importance of people; 5. Deus ex Machina? Technology and science; 6. Institutions and change: theory and history; 7. Development as exploitation? 8. Review and preview; Notes, Bibliography; Index.