The Rise of the Western World：A New Economic History

作者: Douglass C. North 著

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版时间: 1976-07

ISBN: 9780521290999

定价: 370.30

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

页数: 180页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>经济

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Firstpublishedin1973,thisisaradicalinterpretation,offeringaunifiedexplanationforthegrowthofWesternEuropebetween900A.D.and1700,providingageneraltheoreticalframeworkforinstitutionalchangegearedtothegeneralreader. Douglass C. North is also professor of history and a fellow of the Center in Political Economy. He was on the faculty of the University of Washington and held visiting chairs at Cambridge and Rice Universities. In 1993 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as president of the Economic History Association and the Western Economic Association. His major interest is the evolution of economic and political institutions. The effects of institutions on the development of economies through time is a major emphasis in his work in both economic history and development. Among his books are The Rise of the Western World (with R. P. Thomas, 2nd edition), 1973, Growth and Welfare in the American Past, 1973, Structure and Change in Economic History, 1981, and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, 1990. Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Theory and Overview: 1. The issue
2. The overview
Part II. 900–1500: 3. Property rights in land and man
4. Economic conditions at the end of the Early Middle Ages
5. The High Middle Ages: a fronier movement
6. Thirteenth-century Europe
7. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Part III. 1500–1700: 8. Fiscal policy and property rights
9. The Early Modern period
10. France and Spain - the also-rans
11. The Netherlands and successful economic growth
12. England
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
内容简介:
Firstpublishedin1973,thisisaradicalinterpretation,offeringaunifiedexplanationforthegrowthofWesternEuropebetween900A.D.and1700,providingageneraltheoreticalframeworkforinstitutionalchangegearedtothegeneralreader.
作者简介:
Douglass C. North is also professor of history and a fellow of the Center in Political Economy. He was on the faculty of the University of Washington and held visiting chairs at Cambridge and Rice Universities. In 1993 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as president of the Economic History Association and the Western Economic Association. His major interest is the evolution of economic and political institutions. The effects of institutions on the development of economies through time is a major emphasis in his work in both economic history and development. Among his books are The Rise of the Western World (with R. P. Thomas, 2nd edition), 1973, Growth and Welfare in the American Past, 1973, Structure and Change in Economic History, 1981, and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, 1990.
目录:
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Theory and Overview: 1. The issue
2. The overview
Part II. 900–1500: 3. Property rights in land and man
4. Economic conditions at the end of the Early Middle Ages
5. The High Middle Ages: a fronier movement
6. Thirteenth-century Europe
7. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Part III. 1500–1700: 8. Fiscal policy and property rights
9. The Early Modern period
10. France and Spain - the also-rans
11. The Netherlands and successful economic growth
12. England
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.