Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world … is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a … economic historian Jeffrey G. Williamson traces the great divergence between the third world and the West to this nexus of …

that the extent of industrialization in Polish lands was still very limited in 1900. …

This essay explores the role of the state in promoting exports and industrialization in the quest for transformation of …

This paper investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and … relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …

during the middle decades of the nineteenth. At the same time, the country’s sociopolitical structure was undergoing radical …

Primary Sector Shocks and Early American Industrialization Recent advances in the measurement of US manufacturing …