The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and StagnationWhy, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view, Ringmar investigates the implications of his conclusion on issues facing the developing world today. |
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Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation Erik Ringmar. Part I The logic 1 The nature and origin of modern society For most.
Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation Erik Ringmar. Part I The logic 1 The nature and origin of modern society For most.
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... modern. society. For most of their existence there was nothing particularly unique about European societies. In medieval Europe, everybody, next to everybody, was a peasant, poor and illiterate with a life expectancy at birth of perhaps ...
... modern. society. For most of their existence there was nothing particularly unique about European societies. In medieval Europe, everybody, next to everybody, was a peasant, poor and illiterate with a life expectancy at birth of perhaps ...
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... modern' society. The question is what it is that makes a society modern and why some societies have been able to modernise more quickly and more effortlessly than others.3 The aim of this book is to answer these questions. 'Modernity ...
... modern' society. The question is what it is that makes a society modern and why some societies have been able to modernise more quickly and more effortlessly than others.3 The aim of this book is to answer these questions. 'Modernity ...
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... contemporary—this modern—understanding of modernity is never better expressed than through the idea of a 'revolution.' Before the Enlightenment revolutions were understood as movements that took a society back in time to an original ...
... contemporary—this modern—understanding of modernity is never better expressed than through the idea of a 'revolution.' Before the Enlightenment revolutions were understood as movements that took a society back in time to an original ...
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... modern society, where the future is god, economic change becomes our daily act of worship. The irony—and the fundamental predicament of all modern societies—is that none of us ever will be able to reach this final destination. The ...
... modern society, where the future is god, economic change becomes our daily act of worship. The irony—and the fundamental predicament of all modern societies—is that none of us ever will be able to reach this final destination. The ...
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