"In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without …
"In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without …
Although Austria-Hungary was one of the largest and most important states in Europe until 1914, the rich literature on economic history has almost completely neglected this area. Professor Rudolph's book serves two main purposes. It is an extensive descriptive and analytical stu…
"In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that - contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity com…
Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a com…