Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain and their Colonies
by
Jerry F. Hough, Robin Grier
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Douglass North once emphasized that development takes centuries, but he did not have a theory of how and why change occurs. This groundbreaking book advances such a theory by examining in detail why England and Spain developed so slowly from 1000 to 1800. A colonial legacy must go back centuries before...