Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

  • Book
  • © 1981

Overview

Editors:
  1. Paul Bairoch
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Maurice Lévy-Leboyer
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Economic Disparities Among Nations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. International Disparities

      1. The Main Trends in National Economic Disparities since the Industrial Revolution
        • Paul Bairoch
        Pages 3-17
      2. Inequality among Nations: 1950 and 1975
        • Robert Summers, Irving B. Kravis, Alan Heston
        Pages 18-25

    3. The Third World

      1. Industry and Empire: The Beginnings of French Industrial Politics in the Colonies under the Vichy Regime
        • Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
        Pages 29-33
      2. Constraints to Economic Development in Africa: Some Determinants of Economic Disparities
        • Richard O. Ekundare
        Pages 34-45
      3. Notes on the Patterns of Economic Growth in the British North American Colonies in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
        • Stanley L. Engerman
        Pages 46-57
      4. Decolonisation and the Multinational Company: Unilever in India, 1917–65
        • D. K. Fieldhouse
        Pages 58-64
      5. Egypt, Iran and Turkey, 1800–1970: Patterns of Growth and Development
        • Charles Issawi
        Pages 65-77
      6. Technology Transfer, Population Growth and the Development Gap since the Industrial Revolution
        • Priyatosh Maitra
        Pages 78-85
      7. The Economic Underdevelopment of the United States South in the Post-Bellum Era
        • Jay R. Mandle
        Pages 86-97
      8. Export Growth and Capitalist Development in Colombia in the Nineteenth Century
        • José-Antonio Ocampo
        Pages 98-109
      9. Terms of Trade Between France and Latin America, 1826–1856: Causes of Increasing Economic Disparities?
        • Jürgen Schneider
        Pages 110-119
      10. The Unevenness of the Socio-economic Development and Prospects for the Economic Self-sufficiency of the Countries of the East
        • N. A. Simoniya
        Pages 120-127

  3. Regional Economic Disparities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
      Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

  • Editors: Paul Bairoch, Maurice Lévy-Leboyer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04707-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Paul Bairoch and Maurice Lévy-Leboyer 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-04709-3Published: 01 January 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-04707-9Published: 19 February 1981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 428

  • Topics: Development Economics

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation