Victoires et déboires
A Belgian economic historian's panoramic history of the world economy since Columbus, in French.
The first volume of Paul Bairoch’s economic and social history of the world from the sixteenth century to the present, written in French. Bairoch, a Belgian economic historian, gathers figures on incomes, wages, trade, cities and population, and asks why Europe pulled ahead of China and India and what colonialism did to the colonies and to Europe.
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Branko Milanovic
This is a magisterial three-volume economic history of the world from Columbus to Gorbachev. Bairoch covers the entire economic history of the world and he provides lots of numbers, estimates and, at times, indeed guesses, but lots of numbers nevertheless on many things like income, wages trade, urbanisation, income distribution, population and so on. This is crucial for economic historians who want to build on these numbers.
Interview · January 2011
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