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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Style Manual of the Government Printing Office
Author: Style Manual of the Government Printing Office
Author: A History of the Committee on House Administration, 1947-2012
Author: Report of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board for the Year Ending ...
Author: United States. Federal Home Loan Bank BoardPublisher:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Annual Assessment Work on Mining Claims
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mines and MiningPublisher:
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Category : Mining claims
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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A Farewell to Alms
Author: Gregory ClarkPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
History of the Ordinance of 1787 and the Old Northwest Territory
Author: Northwest Territory Celebration Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Deep Cut
Author: Christine KeinerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820358630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; SCIENCE / History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.
Oil & War
Author: Robert GoralskiPublisher: William Morrow
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.
History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Author: Henry Wilson StoreyPublisher:
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Category : Cambria County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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