The Secrets of Hegemony

• Main Authors: Kim, Tai-Yoo (Author), Kim, Daeryoon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Economic growth.; Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic Systems.; Economic Policy.; Economic Growth.

This book revisits the historically different paths to economic development that Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States followed at different time periods since the early modern period. Addressing the questions of how economic growth came about in these four countries and why su...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Theoretical Premises and Historical Method
• Chapter 2: Early Modern Spain
• Chapter 3: Rise and Decline of the Dutch Economic Supremacy
• Chapter 4: The Perfection of an Expansive Reinvestment System in England
• Chapter 5: The Story of England (cont.)
• Chapter 6: The Case of the United States
• Chapter 7: The Story of the U.S. Economy (cont.).