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World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990

World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 Hardback - 1996

by Kindleberger, C. P

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  • Title World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990
  • Author Kindleberger, C. P
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1996-01-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002931936
  • ISBN 9780195099027 / 0195099028
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.38 x 6.38 x 0.94 in (23.83 x 16.21 x 2.39 cm)
  • Reading level 1520
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Economic history
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95010091
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.9

First line

This book is written as the United States is going through a debate over its world role, both political and economic.

From the rear cover

Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography, the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve, at some period in their history, economic superiority over other countries, and what it is that makes them decline. Kindleberger begins with the Italian city-states in the fourteenth century, and traces the changing evolution of world economic primacy as it moves to Portugal and Spain, to the Low countries, to Great Britain, and to the United States, addressing the question of alleged U.S. decline. Additional chapters treat France as a perennial challenger, Germany which has twice aggressively sought superiority, and Japan, which may or may not become a candidate for the role of "number one". Kindleberger suggests that the economic vitality of a given country goes through a trajectory that can usefully (though not precisely) be compared to a human life cycle. Like human beings, the growth of a state can be cut off by accident or catastrophe short of old age; unlike human beings, however, economies can have a second birth. In World Economic Primacy, Kindleberger takes into account the influence of complex historical, social, and cultural factors that determine economic leadership. A brilliant overview of the position of nations in the world economy, World Economic Primacy conveys profound insights into the causes of the rise and decline of the world's economic powers, past and present.

About the author

Charles P. Kindleberger is the Ford International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many works is A Financial History of Western Europe, Second Edition (Oxford, 1993) and Manias, Panics and Crashes (1989).

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