Как богатые страны стали богатыми, и почему бедные страны остаются бедными

In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable sucess, orthodox developemt economists have largely ignored this approach and insisted instead on the importance of free trade. Reinart shows how the history of economics has long been torn between the continental Renaissance tradition on one hand and the free market theories of English and later American economies on the other. Our economies were founded on protectionism and state activismlook at China todayand could only later afford the luxury of free trade. When our leaders come to lecture poor countries on the right road to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the real history of national affluence. 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. Discovering 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. Erik S. Reinert. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [336]-356) And Index. Shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment. This work suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East.