The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, Volume 1

1700-1870
Herausgeber: Broadberry, Stephen; O'Rourke, Kevin H.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Surveying the transition to modern economic growth since 1700, this textbook sets European economic development within a pan-European framework.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780521882026
• ISBN-10: 0521882028
• Artikelnr.: 29936261

Autorenporträt

Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick and a Co-ordinator of the Economic History Initiative at CEPR. His recent publications include The Economics of World War I (2005, as co-editor) and Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: Britain in International Perspective (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Aggregate Growth and Cycles: 1. Understanding growth
in Europe, 1700-1870: theory and evidence Joel Mokyr and Hans-Joachim Voth;
2. The demographic transition and human capital George Alter and Gregory
Clark; 3. State and private institutions Dan Bogart, Mauricio Drelichman,
Oscar Gelderblom and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal; 4. Trade and empire Kevin H.
O'Rourke, Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Guillaume Daudin; 5. Business
cycles Lee Craig and Concepción García-Iglesias; Part II. Sectoral
Analysis: 6. Agriculture Tracy Dennison and James Simpson; 7. Industry
Stephen Broadberry, Rainer Fremdling and Peter Solar; 8. The services
sector Regina Grafe, Larry Neal and Richard W. Unger; Part III. Living
Standards: 9. Standards of living ¿evket Pamuk and Jan Luiten Van Zanden;
10. Urbanization Paolo Malanima; 11. Europe in an Asian mirror: the Great
Divergence Bishnupriya Gupta and Debin Ma.