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From Warfare to Wealth
Mark Dincecco
Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2018
主題
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
Business & Economics / Economics / General
History / Europe / General
History / Military / General
Political Science / Political Economy
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN
1107162351
9781107162358
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ask-DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The economic rise of Europe over the past millennium represents a major human breakthrough. To explain this phenomenon, this book highlights a counterintuitive yet central feature of Europe's historical landscape: warfare. Historical warfare inflicted numerous costs on rural populations. Security was a traditional function of the city. To mitigate the high costs of conflict in the countryside, rural populations migrated to urban centers. Over time, the city's historical role as a safe harbor translated into local economic development through several channels, including urban political freedoms and human capital accumulation. To make this argument, the book performs a wide-ranging analysis of a novel quantitative database that spans more than one thousand years, from the fall of the Carolingian Empire to today. The book's study of urban Europe's historical path from warfare to wealth provides a new way to think about the process of long-run economic and political development.