Zusatztext A breakthrough in our understanding of the links between technology and the wealth and poverty of nations. Informationen zum Autor Erik S. Reinert, author of Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality: An Alternative Perspective (2004), is Professor of Technology, Governance and Development Strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and President of The Other Canon Foundation, Norway. He is one of the world's leading heterodox development economists and is based in Norway. Klappentext Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism and strategic investment. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Contemporary economic orthodoxy has been against Reinerts solutions in the modern age but the mood is changing and Reinert is in the vanguard of the new thinking of helping poorer countries develop. How Rich Countries Got Rich buries the economic orthodoxy once and for all and shows why freetrade is not he best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity. Zusammenfassung How Rich Countries Got Rich buries the economic orthodoxy once and for all and shows why freetrade is not he best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.

Vorwort
How Rich Countries Got Rich buries the economic orthodoxy once and for all and shows why freetrade is not he best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.

Autorentext
Erik S. Reinert, author of Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality: An Alternative Perspective (2004), is Professor of Technology, Governance and Development Strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and President of The Other Canon Foundation, Norway. He is one of the world's leading heterodox development economists and is based in Norway.

Klappentext

Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism and strategic investment. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Contemporary economic orthodoxy has been against Reinerts solutions in the modern age but the mood is changing and Reinert is in the vanguard of the new thinking of helping poorer countries develop.

Zusammenfassung
How Rich Countries Got Rich buries the economic orthodoxy once and for all and shows why freetrade is not he best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.