01529nam a2200241Ia 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020003000063040002300093082001800116100002100134245008800155260003300243300005100276504006700327520022500394521001000619650050100629651001701130654005201147655001301199700007501212322820250311113205.0210818s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9781845 298746qPaperback  aRDAbENGLISHc3228  a338.9009 REIN  a Reinert, Erik S 0aHow rich countries got rich ... and why poor countries stay poor cErik S. Reinert.  aLondon: bConstable, c2007.  axxix, 365 pages bcolour illustrations:c24 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 336-356) and index.  aSummary: This volume is a narrative history of modern economic development from the Italian Renaissance to the present day. It aims to bury economic orthodoxy once and for all under an avalanche of incontrovertible fact.  aAdult  2Discovering types of economic theories -- The evolution of the two different approaches -- Emulation : how rich countries got rich -- Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against -- Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer -- Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history -- Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea -- 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries.  aSouth Africa  2Economic development  Economic history  History  aHistory.  aConstable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2007, Brill, Corbis