Favorites of Fortune Paperback by Patrice Higonnet

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1998-08-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 576 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674295216
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth. Their explanations consider the factors of technology, entrepreneurialism, and paths to economic growth, but each reflects an ideological wave of explanation that has marked the last two hundred years.

About the Author

Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard University.

David S. Landes was Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.

Henry Rosovsky was the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.