The Rise of the Western World
A New Economic History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11089660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael S Kimmel (corresponding author), Walter Goldfrank, Walter L Goldfrank |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 703 |
| Publication date | 1977-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Douglass C North, 1973 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2066368 |
| OpenAlex | W1982108682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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. North and Thomas seek to explain the rise of the Western world by illuminating the causal importance of an efficient economic organization that guarantees a wide latitude of property rights and both incentives and protection for economic growth. Although they pay homage to both Marxian and neoliberal theory, they take a theoretical middle ground that privileges the sociopolitical backdrop of economic affairs (as opposed to solely private or class-based activity) and in doing so identifies the roots of modernization as far back as the 10th Century. To justify the novelty and originality of this approach, they write that most analysts have misidentified the symptoms of modern economic growth (technological change, human capital, economies of scale) as the causes. In doing so, previous scholars have failed to answer the question if all that is required for economic growth is investment and innovation, why have some societies missed this desirable outcome? (2). Their answer is that some societies (England and the Netherlands) were better than others (France and Spain) at providing an efficient economic organization that could guarantee conditions favorable to per capita economic growth among a rapidly growing population
Development economics · Economic growth · Economic stagnation · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Incentive · Investment (military · Market economy · Modernization theory · Per capita · Political economy · Political science · Population · Population growth · Property rights · Sociology · Economic Theory and Policy · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
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| Highly cited | No |