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- The_Wealth_and_Poverty_of_Nations abstract "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (ISBN 0-393-04017-8), published in 1998 (with an epilogue added to the 1999 paperback edition), is a book by the late David Landes, formerly Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. In it, Landes elucidates the reasons why some countries and regions of the world experienced near miraculous periods of explosive growth while the rest of the world stagnated. He does this by comparing the long-term economic histories of different regions of the world, giving priority to Europe and the United States, as well as Japan, China, the Arab world, and Latin America. In addition to analyzing economic and cliometric figures, he gives substantial credit to such intangible assets as culture and entreprise in the different societies he examines in order to explain economic success or failure.In doing so, he revives, at least in part, several theories he believes have been incorrectly discarded by academics over the last 40 years, including: The 'cultural thesis' or Protestant work ethic of Max Weber, whereby the values imposed by the Protestant religion on its adherents would have pushed them to value hard work, timeliness, enterprise and free-thinking to a much greater extent than for their catholic brethren. This would explain the great success of northern Protestant regions such as Holland, Great Britain and parts of Germany as compared to catholic nations such as Spain and France. The 'hydraulic thesis' or 'Oriental Despotism thesis' of Karl A. Wittfogel, where despots would control the use of water in order to submit the population to its will. The 'climate thesis' that posits that tropical climes are, ceteris paribus, poor candidates for development. Many of the theories of Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations is borrowed from for the title. But this does not necessarily mean a doctrinaire neoclassicism, as Landes notes that 'comparative advantage' can change over time, and also that developed countries, contrary to neoclassical theory, typically developed in an environment of protectionism against foreign trade.He also spends a good deal of effort to debunk claims that the Asian Miracle did not happen, was not significant, or was financed by European colonialism.In short, he argues that the vast economic growth of the Industrial Revolution was no accident, but instead resulted from several qualities of Europe, including its climate, political competition, and attitude towards science and religion, and more specifically from certain countries in Europe, primarily England.".
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