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UNISALENTO991003615869707536 |
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Autore |
Bassi, Shaul |
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Titolo |
Shakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare : place, "race," politics / Shaul Bassi |
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Descrizione fisica |
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XI, 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
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Reproducing Shakespeare : new studies in adaptation and appropriation |
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Soggetti |
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Letteratura drammatica inglese - Influssi italiani |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliografia: p. 203-221. Indice |
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UNINA9910815514803321 |
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Autore |
Jerven Morten <1978-> |
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Africa : why economists get it wrong / / Morten Jerven |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, [England] : , : Zed Books in association with International African Institute Royal African Society World Peace Foundation, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-78360-135-3 |
1-78360-134-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (172 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development - Africa |
Economics - Africa |
Africa Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover ; African Arguments; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; From Explaining Slow Growth to Explaining Low Income ; How Economists Have Misunderstood Growth in Africa ; 1: Misunderstanding Economic Growth in Africa; Correlation Is Not Causation ; Garbage In, Garbage Out; The African Dummy Variable ; Misrepresenting the African Economic Growth Record ; The Subtraction Approach ; Aid Dependency ; Deficient Public Services ; Bad Policies ; Bad Governance ; A Leap of Faith ; 2: Trapped in History? |
The Historical Evidence of Growth Explaining Variation in Income 'Today'; Root Causes of African Underdevelopment ; Initial Conditions: Bad Geography and Wrong Technology ; Ethnicity ; Settlers and Institutions ; 'Causal History' or 'Compression of History'?; Ceteris Paribus: History Matters ; 3: African Growth Recurring; The Political Economy of Episodic Growth in Africa ; The Importance of Economic Growth ; From Slavery to Cash Crops: Growth in Precolonial and Colonial Africa ; Growth in Africa Since 1950 ; Prospects for Growth ; World Markets ; Political Conditions |
The Factors of Production Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth: |
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Some Precautions ; 4: Africa's Statistical Tragedy?; Benchmark Years ; How Much Do We Know About Income and Growth in Africa? ; Correlates of Growth ; Interpreting the Growth Evidence ; The Politics of African Economic Statistics ; Conclusion ; How We are Misled by Mainstream Economics ; Learning from History ; Getting African Economies Right ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An accessible, eye-opening account that fundamentally challenges mainstream accounts of economic growth in Africa |
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