How Rich Countries Got Rich And Why Poor Countries Stay Poor

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In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable sucess, orthodox developemt economists have largely ignored this approach and insisted instead on the importance of free trade. (prix original : 13£ : vous payer un livre de seconde main avec un prix très attractif : seul les frais de transport sont à votre charge…)
Erik S. Reinert, né le 15 février 1949 à Oslo (Norvège), est un entrepreneur norvégien, ainsi qu’un économiste hétérodoxe, professeur de gestion de la technologie et économie du développement à l’Université Technologique de Tallinn, en Estonie et fondateur de la Fondation The Other Canon qui promeut « un autre canon » de la pensée économique que la pensée classique et néoclassique dominante.

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In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable sucess, orthodox developemt economists have largely ignored this approach and insisted instead on the importance of free trade. Reinart shows how the history of economics has long been torn between the continental Renaissance tradition on one hand and the free market theories of English and later American economies on the other. Our economies were founded on protectionism and state activism—look at China today—and could only later afford the luxury of free trade. When our leaders come to lecture poor countries on the right road to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the real history of national affluence.

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Poids 0,515 kg
Dimensions 3 × 15,5 × 24 cm