{"product_id":"world-economic-primacy-15001990","title":"World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Kindlebergers World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 is a work of rare ambition and scope from one of our most respected economic historians. Extending over broad ranges of both history and geography  the work considers what it is that enables countries to achieve  at some period in their history  economic superiority over other countries  and what it is that makes them decline. Kindleberger begins with the Italian city-states in the fourteenth century  and traces the changing evolution of world economic primacy as it moves to Portugal and Spain  to the Low countries  to Great Britain  and to the United States  addressing the question of alleged U.S. decline. Additional chapters treat France as a perennial challenger  Germany which has twice aggressively sought superiority  and Japan  which may or may not become a candidate for the role of \"number one.\" Kindleberger suggests that the economic vitality of a given country goes through a trajectory that can usefully (thought not precisely) be compared to a human life cycle. Like human beings  the growth of a state can be cut off by accident or catastrophe short of old age; unlike human beings  however  economies can have a second birth. In World Economic Primacy  Kindleberger takes into account the influence of complex historical  social  and cultural factors that determine economic leadership. A brilliant overview of the position of nations in the world economy  World Economic Primacy conveys profound insights into the causes of the rise and decline of the worlds economic powers  past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985181536309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195099028","price":67.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195099027.jpg?v=1770850740","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/world-economic-primacy-15001990","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}