作者:
Robert C. Allen 出版社: OUP Oxford 副标题: A Very Short Introduction 出版年: 2017-2-23 页数: 144 定价: GBP 7.99 装帧: Paperback 丛书:Very Short Introductions ISBN: 9780198706786
罗伯特•C.艾伦（Robert C. Allen），纽约大学阿布扎比分校全球特聘教授，牛津大学纳菲尔德学院高级研究员，英国社会科学院院士。致力于经济史、技术革新和公共管理策略等方面的研究。著有《近代英国工业革命揭秘：放眼全球的深度透视》《圈地与自耕农：南中部地区的农业发展，1450-1850年》等。
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By enlarging middle class representation in parliament, the Reform Act changed the political landscape. John Stuart Mill remarked, 'wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality of the country emanates from its class interests, and its feeling of class superiority.' The middle class celebrated the entrepreneur, free competition, and reward for achievement. One by one social institutions were remodelled to embody these virtues. (查看原文)
The story of cotton manufacturing in India is a microcosm of the history of Asia and Africa in the 19th century. By the 20th century, their manufacturing sectors had been destroyed by competition from factories in Britain and later western Europe and the USA. The economies of Asia and Africa were re-oriented to produce and export agricultural products. When development economists surveyed these regions in the 1960s, they assumed that this economic structure was 'traditional'. It was anything but. 'Underdeveloped countries' in the 20th century were made -- not born. They were the products of 19th-century globalization and the industrialization of the West. (查看原文)
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0 有用 苏诺 2021-11-26 02:00:22
作者反复提到”数据平均值的意义不大“这件事令我觉得作者非常可爱。确实，average is the devil that makes lost all the details and contexts.
0 有用 榆杉子 2023-09-08 18:10:53 中国香港
为疗愈精神焦虑速刷。作为保姆级的扫盲实在无懈可击。工业革命的起源（chapter 2-3）和两面性（4）写得很好，全球传播（6）略弱。作者认为一切的关键就是要素价格，也允许我加一项：阶级斗争
0 有用 Lucia 2018-11-20 17:20:03
真的是简介，太简单了，有什么稍微深入一点的
0 有用 那好叭 2018-09-23 09:56:26
非常通俗易懂 有期末考前读学霸笔记的感觉233
0 有用 taupe 2021-05-07 11:36:53
Econ 135