How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth 9781509540242, 9781509540228, 1509540245

How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World 0786723483, 9780786723485

How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and

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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity 9780698153660, 0698153669

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Proof! How the World Became Geometrical 0374254907, 9780374254902

An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world One night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet

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The Measurement of Economic Growth 9780231886338

Presents a study of the concept and measurement of economic growth with emphasis on the problem of how to design a stati

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Escaping poverty: The origins of modern economic growth [1 ed.] 9783737001687, 9783847101680

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How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood 9780300157284

Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolesce

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The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm 1107130603, 9781107130609

In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how d

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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time 9781782113201, 1782113207

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Eng

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The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration

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Nature in the History of Economic Thought: How Natural Resources Became an Economic Concept 2016021683, 9781138691490, 1138691496

From antiquity to our own time those interested in political economy have with almost no exceptions regarded the natural

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