دانلود کتاب The Global Economy: A Concise History

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: The structural characteristics of preindustrial economies
1.1: From the Neolithic Revolution to the Bronze Age urbanrevolution
1.2: The structural features of agrarian economies
1.3: Late-mediaeval economies and the impact of the Black Death
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Chapter 2: The “Great Divergence”
2.1: Opening closed worlds
2.2: The Great Divergence: causes and timing
2.3: Beyond Eurasia: America, Africa and Oceania
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Chapter 3: New players, new institutions
3.1: From south to north
3.2: Origins of the Little Divergence
3.3: On both sides of the Atlantic
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Demographic transition
Chapter 4: The Industrial Revolution: technology and society
4.1: A long-term process
4.2: Foreign trade, empire, mercantilism
4.3: Early structural transformation
4.4: The technological revolution: stages, sectors and innovations
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Chapter 5: Why Europe? Why Britain?
5.1: Why Europe? Culture, institutions, economic incentives
5.2: Why Britain? A peculiar combination of factors
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The industrial revolution
Chapter 6: An unstoppable process
6.1: The dynamics of “peaceful conquest” in European industrialization
6.2: The universal banks
6.3: The state’s role in the backward countries
6.4: Industrialization and the reactivity of the socio-economic fabric
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Chapter 7: A new world balance
7.1: The Second Industrial Revolution
7.2: A new leading figure: big business
7.3: Technological change: constraints and opportunities
7.4: Towards a new global scenario
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Workplace organization
Chapter 8: The Western model and its limits
8.1: Tsarist Russia
8.2: Reform from above: Imperial Japan
8.3: The Meiji Restoration
8.4: China in the late Qing period
8.5: Latin America
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Mass emigration from Europe
Chapter 9: The first phase of globalization
9.1: The (first) Great Depression and neomercantilism
9.2: The gold standard and the City at its height
9.3: Imperialism
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International monetary systems
Chapter 10: The Great War: the end of a world
10.1: Interpretation of the war: discontinuity and social revolution
10.2: Total war: industrial planning and mobilization
10.3: The geopolitical and economic consequences
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Chapter 11: The post-war years: the age of insecurity
11.1: The difficult return to the international monetary system
11.2: German hyperinflation
11.3: Economic expansion in the 1920s
11.4: The Soviet Union
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Chapter 12: The crisis of capitalism
12.1: The Wall Street Crash
12.2: The Depression
12.3: The Keynesian revolution
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Chapter 13: State intervention
13.1: The New Deal
13.2: Germany
13.3: Italy
13.4: The Soviet Union
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Chapter 14: The Second World War: “Creative Destruction”
14.1: Destruction and creation
14.2: War and growth
14.3: Investments and foreign trade
14.4: The sectors in war: agriculture and raw materials
14.5: Growth of the arms industry
14.6: Planning for combat
14.7: War and big science
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Chapter 15: Prosperity at last
15.1: “Greenhouse with cyclamens”
15.2: Europe destroyed
15.3: The European Recovery Program
15.4: Trade and international agreements
15.5: Mixed economy, nationalizations and development policies
15.6: Miracle, miracles
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Chapter 16: Decolonization: lights and (many) shadows
16.1: Rich and poor
16.2: The nature of underdevelopment
16.3: Decolonization
16.4: Political instability
16.5: Asian destinies
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Chapter 17: From Keynes to neoliberalism
17.1: The end of Keynesian economics
17.2: The 1970s recession
17.3: Retreat of the public sector in the West
17.4: Privatizations in Europe
17.5: Why privatize, how to privatize
17.6: Privatization and development
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Chapter 18: Third world, “third worlds”
18.1: Fragmentation of the Third World
18.2: A legacy of the past
18.3: The disadvantages of the latecomers
18.4: Sectors and companies
18.5: Developmental states
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Chapter 19: The end of a great dream
19.1: A crisis with deep roots
19.2: Gorbachev’s impossible dream
19.3: The difficult return to the market economy
19.4: Towards a new State capitalism
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Chapter 20: Unstable leadership
20.1: Reagan’s America: reviving the economy and reducing the role of the state
20.2: Japan’s lost challenge
20.3: The dynamic recovery of the United States
20.4: China in the global economy: political repression and economic reform
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Chapter 21: Europe in search of an identity
21.1: The end of the Cold War and German Reunification
21.2: The terms imposed by the Treaty of Maastricht
21.3: Arrival of the euro
21.4: The origins of the European crisis
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Chapter 22: The globalized world
22.1: BRICS
22.2: The success of the market and state intervention in Asia
22.3: The commodities boom and development of south-south economic relations
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Chapter 23: A different kind of crisis?
23.1: The origins of the financial crisis
23.2: Bailing out the banking systems
23.3: Uncertainties after the crisis
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Chapter 24: In praise of history
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