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Philip Coggan
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Wirtschaft
Beschreibung
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe.
More is the story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of long-distance trade - obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7,000 years before Christ - and ends with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. On such a grand scale, quirks of historical perspective leap out: futures contracts and commercial branding are among the many seemingly modern components of the global economy have existed since ancient times. Yet it was only in the 18th century that a cascade of innovations began to drive up prosperity in a lasting way around the world.
To piece this fascinating saga together, Philip Coggan takes the reader inside medieval cottages and hi-tech hydroponic farms, prehistoric Chinese burial mounds and modern central banks. At every step of our journey, he finds that it was connections between people that created our wealth. Will the same openness continue to serve us in the 21st century?
Rezensionen
Coggan is one of the best financial journalists of his generation ... This is a grown-up book that is not suitable for adolescent Twitter warriors of the left or right
Big and timely ... Coggan'
Cogent and concise ... Philip Coggan achieves the impossible by weaving a superb story of the 10,000-year rise of the world economy in around 380 pages ... a must read
How did humanity transform the world over the last 10,000 years? Philip Coggan provides a comprehensive and lucid account
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Neoliberalism, iron age, Global South, Pax Mongolica, Keynsian, Cold War, International trade, enclosure, Zimbabwe, Central Bank Independence, Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution, Weimar Germany, Inflation, Neoclassical, international trade, Mercantilism, Colonialism, Marxism, Protectionism, Ancient Greek olive harvests, BRICs, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Non Aligned Movement, The Money Machine, Capital Controls, Crash of 1929, Cookware in Ancient Rome, bronze age, Russia, Forward Contracts, supply chain management, Gunship Diplomacy, Gold Standard, capital, Breton Woods, labour, Economist, Sino-American trade war, barter, history of economics, agriculture, Germany, Hyperinflation, The Hudson Bay Company, China, Frankopan, tulips and the Dutch Disease, USA, Anthropocene, ancient economies, Foreign Exchange, Economic Development, shipping containers, Obsidian Trade in the Caucuses and Turkey, Monetarist, Russian Revolution and the command Economy, Belt guilds, World Bank, caravels, foreign investment, Spanish empire in South America, Philip Coggan, Structural Adjustment Programs, industrial revolution, holocene, Rome, Classical, Balance of trade, Silk Roads, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Japan, USSR, IMF, mills, Option on olive presses