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The essays in this volume demonstrate the power of using history to improve our understanding of the economic and social challenges of the present and future. A distinguished group of authors provide new perspectives on the dynamics of economic growth, the challenges of economic and political transitions, and the relationships between economic growth, institutional development and individual well-being in mature industrial societies.
Editors’ Introduction: Thinking Historically about Tomorrow’s Economic Challenges; PART ONE: DRIVERS OF LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH; Jan de Vries: The Industrious Revolution and Economic Growth, 1650-1830; Jane Humphries: English Apprenticeship: A Neglected Factor in the First Industrial Revolution; Stephen Broadberry: Human Capital and Productivity Performance: Britain, the United States and Germany 1870-1990; Paul A. David and Gavin Wright: General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution; Nick von Tunzelmann: Technological Systems and Comparative Systems of Innovation: From Historical Performance to Future Policy Guidelines; PART TWO: CHANGES IN ECONOMIC REGIMES AND IDEOLOGIES; Nicholas Crafts: The East Asian Escape from Economic Backwardness: Retrospect and Prospect; Christopher Davis and James Foreman-Peck: The Russian Transition through the Historical Looking-glass: Gradual versus Abrupt Decontrol of Economic Systems in Britain and Russia; Carol Leonard: Rational Resistance to Land Privatization: The Behaviour of Russia’s Rural Producers in Response to Agrarian Reforms, 1861-2000; Francis Wilson: Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition; Leandro Conte, Gianni Toniolo, and Giovanni Vecchi: Lessons from Italy’s Monetary Unification (1862-1880) for Euro and Europe’s Single Market; Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin: Ideology and the Shadow of History: A Perspective on the Great Depression; PART THREE: WELFARE, WELL-BEING AND INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIC SECURITY; Avner Offer: Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-being; Roderick Floud: The Human Body in Britain-Past and Future; Timothy Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth: Height and the High Life-What Future for a Tall Story?; Anne Digby and Sheila Ryan Johansson: Producing Health in Past and Present: The Changing Rates of Scientific and Alternative Medicine; Richard Smith and Peter Solar: Community and State Institutions for Individual Economic Security: The Western European Historical Experience; Paul Johnson and Mark Thomas: Paying for Old Age: Past, Present, Future
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