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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The 1891-92 Crisis and Beyond -- Chapter 3: World War I and the 1920s Financial Crisis -- Chapter 4: The Estado Novo period: The 1930s and World War II -- Chapter 5: The Estado Novo period after World War II: The golden age of economic growth (1946-1973) --...
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Part I: General Background and Governing Issues -- Chapter 1: Why history is important in Africa’s economic development narrative -- Chapter 2: Economic development: Facts, theories and evidence -- Chapter 3: Case studies of development approaches -- Part II: European Growth and Development...
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(Tanja Skambraks) -- Chapter 4. Past the Limits of Usury: Jews and the Moral Economy of Moneylending in the Late Medieval …
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With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered...
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This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...
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democracy in turbulent economic times -- Chapter 7. 2008: Spain in the Eye of the Perfect Storm -- Chapter 8. Epilogue. … choices for a small country like Spain. The book focuses on how Spain faced up to each turning point, the reforms that were …
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Research design -- Chapter 2: Historical context -- Chapter 3: Capital and colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6: The rate of return on investment in Africa -- Chapter 7:...
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This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy. Roy posits that, after an initial slow period of growth between 1950 and the 1980s, the region has been growing rapidly and fast catching up with...
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“Many people have tried to draw lessons from Botswana’s apparent economic success, and linked it to unique features of the country’s history. In this book, Bolt and Hillbom have used detailed historical research to tell the story of that success, and suggest that it is perhaps not so...
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This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments...
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