Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world -- The logic of the Malthusian economy -- Material living … revolution -- The industrial revolution in England -- Why England? Why not China, Japan or India? -- Social consequences -- World … growth since 1800 -- The proximate sources of divergence -- Why isn't the whole world developed? -- Conclusion : strange new …

business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and … Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia …

Introduction : geographical and historical background -- The world economy at the turn of the first millennium -- World … trade 1000-1500 : the economic consequences of Genghis Khan -- World Trade 1500-1650 : old world trade and new world silver … -- World trade 1650-1780 : the age of mercantilism -- Trade and the industrial revolution -- World trade 1780-1914 : the great …

-- Protestants, Jews, gypsies, Muslims, and copts : exceptions to the law of mobility? -- Mobility anomalies -- The good society … feudal age -- Modern England : the deep roots of the present -- A law of social mobility -- Nature versus nurture -- Testing … : social homogeneity and mobility -- Chile : mobility among the oligarchs -- The law of social mobility and family dynamics …