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The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire
1. Introduction
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Part I. From 10,000 B.C. to 1776 — The Discovery of Economies of Scale
2. An Economic Prehistory to Economic Emperors
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3. Barter, Economic Emperors, and the Decentralized Marketplace
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4. Specialization and Surpluses
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5. The First Industrial Revolution
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6. Colonialism Puts Sugar in Our Tea
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Part II. A Second Industrial Revolution
7. A Declaration of Economic Independence
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8. An Economic Bill of Rights
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9. Dominance through Economics
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10. Private Solutions to Public Problems
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Part III. The New Mercantilists
11. The Consumer as King
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12. A New Colonialism
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13. Dependency Economics
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Part IV. Aspiring Nations
14. Transfer of Technology
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15. Economic Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
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16. Heckscher, Ohlin, and Two Billion
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17. Hungry and Willing to Work for Change
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Part V. Growing Pains
18. Complex Economic Systems
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19. Herding Cats and Chaos Theory
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20. Too Big to Fail
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21. Private Property Gives Way to the Public Good
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22. The Winner’s Curse
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Part VI. A New Economic Order
23. The Politics of a Consumption Economy
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24. Gradual Economic Marginalization
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25. An Almost Empire
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26. A New Economic Order
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27. Convergence
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Part VII. From Where Have We Come, and Where Will We Go?
28. From Producer of Ideas to Protector of Interests
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29. A Tear in the Social Fabric
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30. Steady State and Sustainability
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31. Dinosaurs and Economic Darwinism
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32. Fifteen Policy Prescriptions for Relevance
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33. Conclusion
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Keywords: Finance, Banking, Economic Systems, Economics, general, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic History, Business Finance
- Author(s)
- Read, Colin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 306 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230297074
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-32417-0