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Part VII. Foreign Trade Was Not an Engine of Growth

September 19th, 2009

Trade reshuffles. No wonder, then, that it doesn’t work as an engine of growth — not for explaining the scale of growth that overcame the West and then the Rest 1800 to the present. Yet many historians, such as Walt Rostow or Robert Allen or Joseph Inikori, have put foreign trade at the center of their accounts. [continues; click title bar above]


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