The Rise of The Western World - A New Economic History

Douglass C. North, Robert Paul Thomas

Cambridge University Press

1973

170 páginas

5h 40m

ISBN-10: 0521290996

First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.