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The Ancient Economy Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time, declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, economic history progress short and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves economic history progress short and ex-slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading. Available again, with a new foreword by Ian Morris, these sagacious, fertile, economic history progress short and occasionally combative essays are just as electrifying today as when Finley first wrote them. A splendid contribution to the economic history of classical antiquity. It compels the reader to recognize the depth of the transformation from the ancient consumer economy based on slave economic history progress short and serf labor to the modern capitalist, investment, production, profit economy. -- Floyd Sewer Lear, Business History Review Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Enterprising Southerners Kenzer's study is well-conceived economic history progress short and his scholarship both original economic history progress short and sound. The wealth of data in this book will be of enormous value to scholars interested in the Reconstruction Period. -- Roger L. Ransom, University of California, Riverside Most historians agree that only a small share of southern blacks experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. Little attention has been focused, however, on the minority who successfully acquired property economic history progress short and conducted business during this time. In Enterprising Southerners, Robert C. Kenzer examines the characteristics of North Carolina's African-American population in order to explain the social economic history progress short and political factors that shaped economic opportunity for this group from the Civil War until 1915. In 1885, black newspaper editor George Allen Mebane circulated a questionnaire to other North Carolina landowners economic history progress short and merchants, hoping to document economic history progress short and evaluate black progress from the antebellum years through the two short decades since emancipation. This invaluable primary document, as well as tax records, business directories, credit ratings, economic history progress short and census reports, have enabled historian Kenzer to assemble a remarkably thorough portrait of North Carolina's black population. Not surprisingly, he finds that African Americans who were already free before the war enjoyed greater success than their newly freed counterparts. The same held true for mulattoes, who generally prospered more than blacks; in 1870, mulattoes were four times as likely as blacks to own real estate. What is surprising, Kenzer asserts, is that his research does not support lingering theories that the heritage of slavery adversely affected blacks'performance in the market economy. Instead, he blames economic barriers to development, such as lack of capital economic history progress short and poorly developed markets. This study not only provides a valuable history of one state's black population but also paves the way for similar scholarship in other southern states. Copyri
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A Short History of Progress - A Short History of Progress, written by Ronald Wright, describes how four historical civilizations (Easter Island, Sumer, Maya and Rome) self-destructed due to a lack of foresight and to wrong choices. His premise is that each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
Economic Determinism - When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels created the ideology of Communism, many Marxists believe they inductively surmised what they saw as a law of history, an 'inexorable law', that ran throughout the course of history. Marx and Engels are also said to have believed that, by tracing this law through history, they could predict with positive assurance the pattern of man's progress in the future.
Economic history of the United States - The economic history of the United States has its roots in the quest of European settlers for economic gain in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The New World then progressed from a marginally successful colonial economy to a small, independent farming economy, which became the United States of America, which has a history spaning a period of less than two and a half centuries.
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought - An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is a work of economic history written by Murray N. Rothbard.
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