Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History

by Eric Lionel Jones and E.L. Jones

Book Overview

This study concerns the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. E.L. Jones, author of the groundbreaking The European Miracle, proposes two fundamentally new frameworks. One replaces industrial revolution or great discontinuity as the source of change and challenges the reader to accept early periods and non-western societies as vital to understanding the growth process. It shows that growth occurred independently in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198204043
• ISBN13: 9780198204046
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"