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010			_aHC21 R347 2007
020			_a9781586486686
020			_qPaperback
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100			_aErik S. Reinert
245		0	_aHow Rich Countries got rich and Why Poor countries stay poor _cErik S. Reinert
260			_aUnited States of America _bPublicAffairs _c2007
300			_a365 Pages _b"Chart, Graf & Picture" _c24 cm
520			_a"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."
546			_aEnglish
650			_a"Social Science, Economic history and conditions"
942			_cBooks
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