Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067429520X ISBN 13: 9780674295209

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1991

Synopsis

A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth. Their explanations consider the factors of technology, entrepreneurialism, and paths to economic growth, but each reflects an ideological wave of explanation that has marked the last two hundred years.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University.

Review:

A stimulating and fascinating volume that should be in the library of anyone interested in economic history or technology. (John Vincent Nye Journal of Evolutionary Economics)

A most important book...[It] contains a conspectus of the variety of work that goes into our studies nowadays: biometrics and cliometrics; theory and a review of theory; broad sweeps of generalizations, detailed research on a micro scale, and international comparison; some sociology; and some institutional politics...A rich offering. (Sidney Pollard Journal of Economic History)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 067429520X
• ISBN 13: 9780674295209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Higonnet Patrice, Landes David S., Rosovsky Henry