Global Economic History

书名：Global Economic HistoryAVeryShortIntroduction
作者：RobertC.Allen
译者：
ISBN：9780199596652
出版社：OxfordUniversityPress
出版时间：2011-11-15
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：192
豆瓣评分： 8.3

书籍简介：

Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations by pursuing four polices-creating a national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and mass education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. Before the Industrial Revolution, most of the world's manufacturing was done in Asia, but industries from Casablanca to Canton were destroyed by western competition in the nineteenth century, and Asia was transformed into 'underdeveloped countries' specializing in agriculture. The spread of economic development has been slow since modern technology was invented to fit the needs of rich countries and is ill adapted to the economic and geographical conditions of poor countries. A few countries – Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China – have, nonetheless, caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that has achieved rapid growth through investment coordination. Whether other countries can emulate the success of East Asia is a challenge for the future.

作者简介：

作者 罗伯特•C.艾伦

牛津大学经济史教授，英国社会科学院院士。致力于经济史、技术革新和公共管理策略等方面的研究。著有《近代英国工业革命揭秘：放眼全球的深度透视》等。

序言作者 萧国亮

经济学博士，北京大学经济学院教授，博士生导师，北京大学工学院教授，博士生导师，北京大学社会经济史研究所名誉所长。兼任国家清史编纂委员会典志组副组长，清华大学华商研究所学术委员。自1980年以来，出版专著十部，发表论文一百余篇。主要著作有《皇权与中国社会经济》、《独特的“食货”之路——中国社会经济史研究》、《世界经济史》、《中华人民共和国经济史》、《家庭金融知识大全》等。

书友短评：

@ Patrick/小白 深入浅出相当大家手笔。加州学派乱入了。 @ Phoenix 参考书目，其实是几篇论文的resume，但是好读多了。提供了一些客观资料和观点，主要研究世界不同国家，或地域的经济发展分歧。 @ 早起傻一天 是我喜欢的李斯特标准理论，对苏联和改革前中国的评价也很客观，文笔流畅读起来很享受。结尾激动人心，the world will have come full circle @ 春诵夏弦 是否一谈全球就等同于工业化世界？何况层次也很混乱，把非洲插在中间，却无亚洲。 @ BY 在火车上读完，7.5/10. 尝试解释太多的问题——正如书名暗示那般，堆砌太多数据简化一些因素；对于西方国家阐述更为细致到位，至于东方，尤其中国，含糊其辞。脉络清晰但枯燥。不过倒是深刻理解了一些学过的术语（要是大学老师这般授课就好了哈哈哈哈）以及补充了些新概念。//人云亦云的说法真的好多都是片面或者站不住脚，考虑问题还是要多方面且细致。 @ 带壳牡蛎 Econ 135 @ 吝啬的小公务员 很精炼了，又比单纯列表格多了一些简短的例子帮助理解。相对于同类书比较客观，可能恰恰因为篇幅有限，没过多灌输西方思维，多用数据和简短例子展现发展。

　　Very Short Introductions(共679册)，这套丛书还有《condensed matter physics》《Nothing》《Medieval Literature》《The Cold War》《Biodiversity Conservation: A Very Short Introduction》等。

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