TY - JOUR
T1 - Warum sind manche Länder reich und andere arm?
AU - Allen, Robert C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Robert Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University and a fellow of Nuffield College. He received his doctorate from Harvard University. He lectured at the University of British Columbia from 1975 to 2001 when he moved to Oxford. Allen has written on English agricultural history, international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of whales, and contemporary policies on education. His articles have won the Cole Prize, the Redlich Prize, and the Explorations Prize. His books include Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (2009), and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003), both of which won the Ranki Prize of the Economic History Association, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (2009), and Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (2011). Currently, he is studying the global history of wages and prices and pre-industrial living standards around the world. Robert Allen is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Canada.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - Why are some countries rich and others poor? The lecture explores the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, economic policy, and institutions, to show how they have determined the wealth and poverty of nations around the world. Using historical examples to analyse the factors that have influenced growth, the lecture exposes what has caused the unequal world we live in today.
AB - Why are some countries rich and others poor? The lecture explores the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, economic policy, and institutions, to show how they have determined the wealth and poverty of nations around the world. Using historical examples to analyse the factors that have influenced growth, the lecture exposes what has caused the unequal world we live in today.
KW - Industrial revolution
KW - Industrialisierung
KW - Industrielle revoltion
KW - Wohlstand
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U2 - 10.1524/jbwg.2013.0010
DO - 10.1524/jbwg.2013.0010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84886631213
SN - 0075-2800
VL - 54
SP - 183
EP - 214
JO - Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte
JF - Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte
IS - 1
ER -