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Escaping poverty : the origins of modern economic growth / / Peer Vries
| Escaping poverty : the origins of modern economic growth / / Peer Vries |
| Autore | Vries P. H. H |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Göttingen : , : V&R Unipress, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (516 p.) |
| Disciplina |
339.4
339.46 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poverty
Poverty - China Poverty - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
3-7370-0168-5
3-8470-0168-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; 1. The emergence and non-emergence of modern economic growth; 2. Taking off and falling (further) behind; 3. Two case studies: Great Britain and China in the very long eighteenth century; 4. Continuity and change, inevitability and contingency; 5. Old clichés about Asia''s economic past that are no longer tenable; 6. Income, growth and wealth: problems of measurement; 7. Industrial Revolution and Great Divergence; 8. Malthusian constraints, premodern growth and modern growth; Part one: Economists and theories of economic growth
1. Introduction2. Land, resources, geography; 3. Labour: the effect of quantities; 4. Labour quality: human capital; 5. Consumption; 6. Capital and capital accumulation; 7. Specialisation and exchange; 8. Innovation; 9. Institutions: property rights, markets and states; 10. Culture and economic growth; Part two: Actual explanations of the Great Divergence; 1. The Great Divergence and geography; 2. Geography, factor endowments and institutions; 3. Geography and institutions: Britain and China, wheat versus rice; 4. Geography: town versus countryside, urbanising Great Britain and rural China 5. Labour: scarcity and abundance6. Factor endowments: labour-saving Britain versus labour-absorbing China; 7. High wages and low wages: stimuli and traps?; 8. Labour-extensive and labour-intensive routes to growth?; 9. Human capital: labour and its skills; 10. Human capital: labour and discipline; 11. Consumption; 12. Accumulation, income and wealth; 13. Primitive accumulation: bullion and slaves; 14. Intercontinental trade; 15. Globalisation and Great Divergence: How the Third World came into existence; 16. Ghost acreages 17. Innovation provides the key rather than accumulation or ghost acreage18. Innovation: technology and science; 19. A seriously underestimated factor: enhanced productivity because of institutional and organisational innovation; 20. Ultimate causes: institutions; 21. Markets and property rights; 22. Institutions: markets and varieties of pre-industrial capitalism; 23. Wage labour and world-system: Why it does not make sense to call Qing China capitalist and why capitalism''s origins should be considered uniquely Western; 24. Markets: sizes and characteristics 25. The institution of institutions: The role of the state, in particular that of Britain26. Was industrialising Britain a developmental state?; 27. The European state system and the development of civil society: the non-monopolisation of the sources of social power; 28. Culture and growth: Western cultural exceptionalism and how to measure it; 29. Culture does make a difference. But how can one convincingly prove that?; Why not China?; A world of striking differences; Concluding comments; 1. Geography; 2. Labour and consumption; 3. Accumulation; 4. Specialisation and exchange; 5. Innovation 6. Institutions: markets, property rights and states |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910169179503321 |
Vries P. H. H
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| Göttingen : , : V&R Unipress, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / / Jeremy Seabrook
| Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / / Jeremy Seabrook |
| Autore | Seabrook Jeremy <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.50941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poor - Great Britain
Poverty - Great Britain Poor - Great Britain - Economic conditions Poverty - Great Britain - History Poor Poverty |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-84904-442-2
1-84904-443-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 How The World Remains Poor; 2 The Perils of Wealth; 3 Where Did the Poor Come From?; 4 Continuities: Historical Attitudes towards the Poor; 5 Voices of the Poor; 6. The Industrial Poor; 7. The Enduring Image of Poverty; 8. An Impermanent Settlement; 9 Modernised Poverty; 10 The Impoverishment of Riches; Conclusion; Index; Footnotes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463172203321 |
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Seabrook Jeremy <1939->
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| London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / / Jeremy Seabrook
| Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / / Jeremy Seabrook |
| Autore | Seabrook Jeremy <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.50941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poor - Great Britain
Poverty - Great Britain Poor - Great Britain - Economic conditions Poverty - Great Britain - History Poor Poverty |
| ISBN |
1-84904-442-2
1-84904-443-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 How The World Remains Poor; 2 The Perils of Wealth; 3 Where Did the Poor Come From?; 4 Continuities: Historical Attitudes towards the Poor; 5 Voices of the Poor; 6. The Industrial Poor; 7. The Enduring Image of Poverty; 8. An Impermanent Settlement; 9 Modernised Poverty; 10 The Impoverishment of Riches; Conclusion; Index; Footnotes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787750503321 |
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Seabrook Jeremy <1939->
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| London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / / Jeremy Seabrook
| Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / / Jeremy Seabrook |
| Autore | Seabrook Jeremy <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.50941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poor - Great Britain
Poverty - Great Britain Poor - Great Britain - Economic conditions Poverty - Great Britain - History Poor Poverty |
| ISBN |
1-84904-442-2
1-84904-443-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 How The World Remains Poor; 2 The Perils of Wealth; 3 Where Did the Poor Come From?; 4 Continuities: Historical Attitudes towards the Poor; 5 Voices of the Poor; 6. The Industrial Poor; 7. The Enduring Image of Poverty; 8. An Impermanent Settlement; 9 Modernised Poverty; 10 The Impoverishment of Riches; Conclusion; Index; Footnotes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823666103321 |
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Seabrook Jeremy <1939->
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| London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Poverty, welfare, and the disciplinary state [[electronic resource] /] / Chris Jones and Tony Novak
| Poverty, welfare, and the disciplinary state [[electronic resource] /] / Chris Jones and Tony Novak |
| Autore | Jones Chris <1951-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 216 p |
| Disciplina | 362.5/0941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | NovakTony <1950-> |
| Collana | The state of welfare |
| Soggetto topico |
Public welfare - Great Britain
Economic assistance, Domestic - Great Britain Poor - Great Britain Poverty - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-134-73958-3
1-280-33472-X 0-203-00366-7 0-203-17121-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910170993703321 |
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Jones Chris <1951->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Poverty, welfare, and the disciplinary state [[electronic resource] /] / Chris Jones and Tony Novak
| Poverty, welfare, and the disciplinary state [[electronic resource] /] / Chris Jones and Tony Novak |
| Autore | Jones Chris <1951-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiii, 216 p |
| Disciplina | 362.5/0941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | NovakTony <1950-> |
| Collana | The state of welfare |
| Soggetto topico |
Public welfare - Great Britain
Economic assistance, Domestic - Great Britain Poor - Great Britain Poverty - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-134-73958-3
1-280-33472-X 0-203-00366-7 0-203-17121-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996198215003316 |
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Jones Chris <1951->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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