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The Modern Portuguese Economy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Amaral, Luciano - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019

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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Economic Development in the Twenty-first Century : Lessons for Africa Throughout History

Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2019

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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Reassessing the Moral Economy : Religion and Economic Ethics from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century

Skambraks, Tanja (ed.); Lutz, Martin (ed.) - 2023

(Tanja Skambraks) -- Chapter 4. Past the Limits of Usury: Jews and the Moral Economy of Moneylending in the Late Medieval …

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Confucian Capitalism : Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan

Sagers, John H. - 2018

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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Japan and the Great Divergence : A Short Guide

Francks, Penelope - 2016

This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the...

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Regional Inequality in Spain : 1860-2015

Diez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martinez-Galarraga, Julio; … - 2018

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern … Professor of Economic History at the University of València, Spain. His broad research interests include economic history and … Professor of Economic History at the University of València, Spain. His research is focused on the fields of regional economics …

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Historical Turning Points in Spanish Economic Growth and Development, 1808–2008

Betrán, Concha (ed.); Pons, Maria A. (ed.) - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

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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Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Pretel, David - 2018

century. Crucially, he highlights the construction and evolution of the patent system in response to the needs of Spain …'s technologically dependent economy. The degree of industrial backwardness in mid-nineteenth-century Spain set the stage for the …

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Westernization Movement and Early Thought of Modernization in China : Pragmatism and Changes in Society, 1860s–1900s

Zhou, Jianbo - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.

Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Change of Time and the Formation of the Westernization Thought -- Chapter 2. The Guiding Principle of Westernization Movement.-Chapter 3. The Development Strategies of the Self-Strengthening Modernization -- Chapter 4. Social Reformative Thought of...

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The Economy of South Asia : From 1950 to the Present

Roy, Tirthankar - 2017

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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