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The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

by Douglass C. North, R.P. Thomas · 1973

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A radically new interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, provides a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.

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