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François Crouzet & Armand Clesse (eds.) Leading the world economically |
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Charles Kindleberger's World economic primacy: 1500-1990 (1996) was a seminal book, which reintegrated history within economics and put into the forefront the problem of primacy, which most economists had neglected. It generated many debates and the present book gathers fifteen essays by well-known economist and historians, who are experts in various fields, and who discuss and complement Kindleberger's views. The factors thanks to which some states reached a position of primacy are thoroughly examined - especially technological progress, adaptability, creativity, institutions. The role of aggression, violence and war, the failure of challengers, like France, Germany, Japan, are also considered. It is stressed, however, that the nature (or intensity) of primacy and its factors have greatly changed during the last five centuries: the positions of Venice c. 1500 and of the USA c. 2000 were quite different. Analysis of the specificity, limits and future of American dominance makes this book really topical. Armand Clesse is Director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies. He has published and edited various books on European and international affairs. François Crouzet is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has published extensively on the origins and early stages of modern industrialization, in Britain and in France. Contents Contributors Preface Part I: Factors of Primacy Joel Mokyr - Institutions, Technological Creativity and Economic History William Lazonick & Mary O'Sullivan - The Wealth of Wealthy Nations: Business Enterprises, Social Institutions and Economic Development Norbert von Kunitzki - The Vitality of Nations: Do We Mean Countries or Systems? Paul M. Hohenberg - Power and Profit: Territorial and Trading States as Economic Leaders Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich - Brooks Adams and Charles P. Kindleberger Part II: Primacy through History from China to Britain William McNeill - Changing Balances Among Old-World Economies, 1000-1650 François Crouzet - Aggression and Opulence Patrick Karl O'Brien - Two Aristocratic Regimes and the Long-Term Growth of the British Economy, 1688-1914 Rondo Cameron - The Industrial Revolution: Fact or Fiction? Richard & Barbara Rosecranz - British Vitality at its Zenith: Explaining the Archievements of 1815-1851 Part III: Perspectives from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century William Parker - Industry and Business in the Twentieth Century Barry Eichengreen & Pablo Vazques - Institutions and Economic Growth in Postwar Europe: Evidence and Conjectures Martin Bronfenbrenner - The Japanese Case: If not Primacy, What? Christopher Coker - Japanese Postwar Growth and the Revaluation of Values W.W. Rostow - The United States and the World: The First Half of the Twenty-First Century Annex: Excerpts from the Discussions at the Conference Introductory Remark I. The Concept of World Economic Primacy II. Determinants of World Economic Primacy III. World Economic Primacy 1350-1800 IV. World Economic Primacy in the Nineteenth Century V. World Economic Primacy in the Twentieth Century VI. Prospects for World Economic Primacy Index of the Contributors to the Discussions Conference Participants Bestel/Order |
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