TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kindleberger,Charles Poor
TI  - World economic primacy, 1500 to 1990
SN  - 0195099028 (cloth : acidfree paper)
AV  - HC51 .K49 1996
U1  - 330.9 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Economic history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index; TOC; The national cycle --
Successive primacies --
The Italian city-states --
Portugal and Spain --
The Low Countries --
France, the perpetual challenger --
Britain, the classic case --
Germany, the latecomer --
The United States --
Japan in the Queue?; Economics
N2  - Summary:	
Charles Kindleberger's World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography, the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve, at some period in their history, economic superiority over other countries, and what it is that makes them decline
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