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Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy -- Central aims of the book -- Who will read this? Target … epiphenomena? -- Investing in the Roman economy : material evidence for economic development -- Benefactions as wealth generators … -- Investment opportunities in the Roman economy -- Money in the Roman economy : the numismatic evidence -- Supplying the demand …
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In this fascinating book, Sambit Bhattacharyya presents a detailed account of the socio-economic processes that create broad variations in living standards across the globe. The author examines the world’s economic history over the last five centuries, replete with growth miracles and growth...
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Most contemporary historians have proposed a multitude of supply-side factors that arguably propelled the Great Divergence between the West and the East. A late nineteenth-century economist, George Gunton, instead proposed a demand-centric theory to explain the root cause for the divergence...
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Assessing changes in living standards in Southeast Asia in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The colonial period: population and output growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors -- The colonial period: measures of welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the...
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the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster … than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions …
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the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster … than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the dramatic economic growth and rise in income levels, questions …
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