Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick), Kevin H. O'Rourke (Dublin Trinity College)

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Setting European economic development within a unified, comparative and genuinely pan-European framework, this textbook surveys the transition to modern economic growth since 1700. Leading authors cover the major themes of modern economic history and compare economic development across countries in a clear and comprehensible way.

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Produktdetails

• The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9780521708388
• ISBN-10: 0521708389
• Artikelnr.: 29736643

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 Sevket Pamuk and Jan Luiten Van Zanden; 10. Urbanization Paolo Malanima; 11. Europe in an Asian mirror: the Great Divergence Bishnupriya Gupta and Debin Ma.