How the world became rich : the historical origins of economic growth

Author/Creator:: Koyama, Mark, 1982- author
Publication/Creation:: [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2023
Resource Type:: Sound Recording
Edition:: [First edition].

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Full Title:: How the world became rich : the historical origins of economic growth / Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin

Additional Author/Creators:: Barr, Adam (Narrator), narrator
Rubin, Jared T., author

Summary:: Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism. Pieces of each of these theories help explain key events on the path to modern riches. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in eighteenth-century Britain? Why did some European countries, the United States, and Japan catch up in the nineteenth century? Why did it take until the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries for other countries? Why have some still not caught up? Koyama and Rubin show that the past can provide a guide for how countries can escape poverty. There are certain prerequisites that all successful economies seem to have. But there is also no panacea. A society's past and its institutions and culture play a key role in shaping how it may-or may not-develop.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (1 audio file (10 hr., 14 min.))
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.
Participant/Performer Note:: Read by Adam Barr.