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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?
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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?
9781781258095
The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
Philip Coggan; The Money Machine; Cookware in Ancient Rome; Obsidian Trade in the Caucuses and Turkey; Iranian Revolution of 1979; history of economics; international trade; Silk Roads; Frankopan; Pax Mongolica; tulips and the Dutch Disease; Belt guilds; Sino-American trade war; Neoliberalism; Mercantilism; Colonialism; Spanish empire in South America; Gunship Diplomacy; Economic Development; IMF; World Bank; Structural Adjustment Programs; Anthropocene; The Hudson Bay Company; Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade; Russian Revolution and the command Economy; USSR; Protectionism; Crash of 1929; Hyperinflation; Zimbabwe; Weimar Germany; Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution; Forward Contracts; Ancient Greek olive harvests; Option on olive presses; caravels; Economist; Keynsian; Marxism; Classical; Neoclassical; Monetarist; Breton Woods; Gold Standard; Inflation; Central Bank Independence; Global South; Foreign Exchange; Capital Controls; Balance of trade; foreign investment; capital; labour; ancient economies; barter; enclosure; mills; industrial revolution; holocene; agriculture; iron age; bronze age; Rome; Japan; USA; China; Germany; Russia; BRICs; Non Aligned Movement; Cold War; International trade; supply chain management; shipping containers
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