The Wealth of Nations in the Twentieth Century
The Policies and Institutional Determinants of Economic Development (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
by Ramon H. Myers
This collection of essays, based on a conference at the Hoover Institution, compares the governmental policies and institutional determinants of economic development for sixteen countries within the context of Western economic development and national trends in the world economy. The study also includes an essay by Amartya Sen that examines the meaning of wealth and its different measurements.
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The Wealth of Nations in the Twentieth Century: The Policies and Institutional Determinants of Economic Development (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
December 1996, Hoover Institution Press
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0817994513 9780817994518
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"The nature and causes of the wealth of nations have been a subject of systematic inquiry for a long time, going back at least to William Petty in the seventeenth century and to the diverse contributions of Gregory King, Francois Quesnay, Antoine Lavoisier, and Joseph Louis Lagrange, among many others."
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