How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy

Table of contents

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• Selected Works by W. W. Rostow ii
• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• 1 - Why Traditional Societies Did Not Generate Self-Sustained Growth 1
• 2 - The Politics of Modernization 33
• 3 - The Commercial Revolution 107
• 4 - Science, Invention, and Innovation 132
• 5 - The World Economy, 1783-1820: An Epilogue 190
• Notes 229
• Index 257