Storia economica globale

كنت بحاول استوعب إيه الأفضلية المقارنة اللي الكاتب بيتكلم عنها دي لحد ما قدرت أخمن في النهاية إنه يقصد القانون الاقتصادي المعروف بالميزة النسبية، المترجم حتى معندوش أدنى معرفة اقتصادية تساعده يترجم صح ولا حتى فكر يدور في ترجمه ومعنى حاجة مشهورة ومهمة اقتصاديًا بالشكل ده!بخلاف كدة الكتاب عظيم، ومهم ج Leggi tutto

I had been asked to read this in parallel with Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies . Unfortunately, I have gotten around it more than a year late. But I kept the GGS open beside me as I traced the economic explanations for the trajectories of the various continents/re Leggi tutto

This "very short introduction" was fine. One point it hammered home was that there is a historical connection between high wages and growth. That came up repeatedly. Another interesting idea for me was that without the Industrial Revolution, without growth, without, I guess, consumerism, a lot of us Leggi tutto

Very good. Dispassionate longue durée overview of the world's civilizations coupled with assessment of national economic policies. Most discussion goes towards the USSR, Japan and China; I'd have liked to see more on the African attempts at creating industrialized high-wage economies. High wages and Leggi tutto

يطرح الكتاب سؤالا هاما ويتناوله بالتحليل: لماذا تتمتع بعض دول العالم بالثراء الفواحش ويعاني البعض الآخر من الفقر المدقع؟ بشكل سريع غير مخل يقف الكاتب على تاريخ الاقتصاد العالمي وأسباب صعود الدول وغناها وفقر البعض الآخر، يمتد تحليل الكاتب من فترة تقع بين 1500:2006 ميلاديا. كتاب جميل لإلقاء نظرة عامة عل Leggi tutto

This is one of the most remarkable exercises in concision that I have ever encountered, and the style worked rather well for me. I won't try to provide a summary of a text which is itself of an impressively dense summary of the economic history of the last 500 years. I will thus only mention the tid Leggi tutto

مقدمة قصيرة عن التاريخ الاقتصادي العالمي لكن مفيدة و مثيرة للفكر، لماذا بعض الدول غنية و الأخرى فقيرة؟ لماذا نهضت أوروبا لا إفريقيا؟ أسئلة قديمة الإجابة عنها جولة في تاريخ العالم و تحليل لعوامل النمو الاقتصادي ما بين بريطانيا و فترات الاستعمار و قيام أمريكا و نموذج اليابان و روسيا و الفرق بين نموذج Leggi tutto

A detailed introduction work on Economic History. I came to this work through, Angus Maddison on Economic History. With curious question, "Why did India fall in socio-economic status?" Once, India was leading nation socio-economically in the planet, So what happened? There are two popular views: a) Ex Leggi tutto

This very short introduction is a good start to economics for students of non-economic fields. It introduces many economic terms, concepts, and theories with lots of quantitative data. It also gives many economic measurements that can be applied individually to analyze the social and economic state