Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes by Paul Bairoch

Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes Paul Bairoch ebook
ISBN: 0226034631, 9780226034638
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Format: pdf
Page: 200

University of Chicago Press, 1995. Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes. As with most examples of change in complex systems, the transformation referenced by Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes. Dissent on Development: Studies and Debates in Development Economics. ISBN 9780226034638; Clapham, J. (1993), Economics and World History – Myths and Paradoxes (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf). Translated by Christopher Braider. The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the first city-states—almost every aspect of daily life and human society was, eventually, in some way altered. That 'the West was the major slave trader' is one of the myths busted by Paul Bairoch, economic historian at the University of Geneva (Economics and World History, Myths and Paradoxes, Harvester Wheatsheaf 1993; pp. Cities and Economic Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chang himself cites Paul Bairoch's 1993 Economics and world history : myths and paradoxes, published by the University of Chicago Press, which seems already to have laid out the majority of his arguments.