[Capítulo III: Entendiendo la República Ineficiente] A History of Wealth and Poverty

[http://tqe.quaker.org/wealth-and-poverty/]

Un libro muy interesante para leer online y gratis!! Historia de la Riqueza y la Pobreza: ¿Por qué unas pocas naciones son ricas y muchas son pobres?

A History of Wealth and Poverty: "A History of Wealth and Poverty
Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor

by John P. Powelson
Emeritus Professor of Economics
University of Colorado

[Original title: Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and their Contrast with the Third World.]
Table of Contents:

Dedication, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments

1. Durable Economic Development
2. Japan: The Power-Diffusion Process
3. Japan: Institutions and Economic Growth
4. Northwestern Europe: Power, Pluralism, and Leverage
5. Compromise in the History of Northwestern Europe
6. Law as an Institution of Economic Growth: Europe compared to Japan
7. Africa: Trade, Entrepreneurship, Pluralism, and Leverage
8. Africa: Warfare, Slavery, Colonialism, and Law
9. Africa Today
10. India
11. China: The Puzzles of History
12. China: Institutions and Reform
13. Russia: Trade, Entrepreneurship, and Institutions
14. Russia: Five Centuries of Authoritarian Reform
15. Spain and Portugal: Institutions, Pluralism, and Leverage
16. Spain and Portugal: Economic Development by Reflection
17. Mexico and Central America
18. South America
19. The Middle East in History
20. The Middle East Today
21. Novgorod, Italy, and the Four Dragons
22. The German 'Miracle'
23. The Twenty-First Century"

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