Research Catalog

Title

The age of equality : the twentieth century in economic perspective / Richard Pomfret.

Author

Pomfret, Richard W. T.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xi, 283 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000 it was sixty-six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century also saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. This book tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the last century and created today's world"--Jacket.

Subject

• Economic history > 20th century
• Equality > History > 20th century
• Free enterprise > History > 20th century
• Globalization > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The age of liberty (1815-1914) -- The end of an era : war and depression in the west (1914-45) -- The soviet economic model -- The first world after 1945: multilateralism and welfare state (1945-79) -- Decolonization and cold war -- The conservative reaction in the west (1979-2000) -- The collapse of central planning -- The end of the third world -- From the age of equality to the age of fraternity.

ISBN

9780674062177 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011014351

OCLC

709670252

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library