More : the 10,000-year rise of the world
- London Economists Books 2020
- 466p.
Table of Content: 1. The ancient economy 2. Agriculture 3. The Asian market: 200-1000CE 4. Europe revives: 1000-1500 5. The quest for energy 6. The great change: 1500-1820 7. Manufacturing: worshipping our makers 8. The first era of globalisation: 1820-1914 9. Immigration 10. World wars and depression: 1914-1945 11. Transport: the vital network 12. From the wonder years to the malaise: 1945-1979 13. Central banks: money and technocrats 14. The second era of globalisation: the developed world, 1979-2007 15. Government: an ever-present force 16. A truly global economy: the developing world, 1979-2007 17. Technology and innovation 18. The crisis and after: 2007 to today
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now. Taking history in great strides, More illustrates broad changes by examining details from the design of the standard medieval cottage to the stranglehold that Paris's three belt-buckle-making guilds exercised over innovation in the field of holding up trousers. Along the way author reveals that historical economies were far more sophisticated than we might imagine - tied together by webs of credit and financial instruments much like the modern economy. author shows how, at every step of our long journey, it was connections between people - allowing more trade, more specialization, more ideas and more freedom - that always created the conditions of prosperity.