The Long Wave in the World EconomyEnthusiastically received by reviewers - `It is an intellectual tour de force ... this is the most substantial synthesis of long wave theory to be published since the revival of interest in the whole topic.' - Professor Christopher Freeman |
Contents
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Technological styles | 36 |
Monetary feedback | 84 |
Population feedback | 101 |
Inequality feedback 1 In the North | 122 |
Inequality feedback 2 International and in the South | 147 |
A résumé of the theoretical argument | 183 |
A historical account 18501896 | 207 |
A historical account 18961945 | 221 |
A historical account from 1945 to the present | 248 |
The way to the next upswing | 272 |
Notes | 295 |
Bibliography | 320 |
Index | 329 |
A historical account 17801850 | 189 |
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