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Title: How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World by Nathan Rosenberg, L.E., Jr. Birdzell ISBN: 0-465-03109-9 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: The origins of capitalism revealed!
Comment: "How the West Grew Rich" is a thorough treatise on the rise of capitilism in the nation-states of the west, from feudal society towards modern times. Rosenthal and Birdzell discuss in the appearances of the requirements for capitilism, such as acknowledgment of property rights and consistent and predictable law. Also discussed are the political, social, or economic changes that caused feudal society to crumble and a variety of free markets to gradually take root and then blossom in Europe.

This book was thorough and informative, though a bit repetitive and somewhat dry. It makes a wonderful companion to Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel", filling in where the later left off.

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