02364cam a2200385 a 4500 273239 BD-DhUL 20170521193839.0 970620s1998 nyub b 001 0 eng 97027508 0393040178 0349111669 273239 DLC eng BD-DhUL DLC TOC e------ 330.16 21 LAW Landes, David S. The wealth and poverty of nations : why some are so rich and some so poor / David S. Landes. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1998. xxi, 650 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-635) and index. David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement. Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused on work and knowledge, which led to increased productivity, the creation of new technologies, and the pursuit of change. Europe's key advantage lay in invention and know-how, as applied in war, transportation, generation of power, and skill in metalwork. Even such now banal inventions as eyeglasses and the clock were, in their day, powerful levers that tipped the balance of world economic power. Today's new economic winners are following much the same roads to power, while the laggards have somehow failed to duplicate this crucial formula for success. The key to relieving much of the world's poverty lies in understanding the lessons history has to teach us - lessons uniquely imparted in this towering work of history. Wealth Europe History. Wealth History. Poverty Europe History. Poverty History. Regional economic disparities History. Economic history. Economic development Social aspects. Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a1j7-aa ddc BK ANL YY 330.16 L256 201928 201928 0 0 ddc 0 330_160000000000000_LAW 1 NFIC 339888 DUL DUL AAC 2017-05-21 Gift 330.16 LAW 439351 2017-05-21 1 2017-05-21 BK