Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
内容简介
These 14 essays covering a wide range of subjects of great current interest reflect the continuous evolution of the author's thought from 1951 to 1961. Range and flexibility characterize Mr. Gerschenkron's dynamic approach to Europe's industrial history. Connecting evolution in individual countries with their degree of economic backwardness, he presents the industrialization of the continent as a "case of unity in diversity," thus offering a cogent alternative, supported by case studies, to the traditional view of industrialization as monotonous repetition of the same process from country to country. Brought together for the first time, these essays were originally published in specialized periodicals in the United States and abroad.
Explaining and systematizing the elements of creative innovation in industrial history, Mr. Gerschenkron opens new paths of research and poses a number of pertinent questions for the modern problem of economic development in backward countries. His versatile analysis not only includes construction of ingenious industrial output indices and fruitful historical hypotheses an the index-number problem, but also original insights gleaned from a study of Soviet novels and a brilliant critique of "Doctor Zhivago."
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作者简介
The late Alexander Gerschenkron held a degree of Doctor Rerum Politicarum from the University of Vienna. He was Chief of the Foreign Areas Section at the Federal Reserve Board, as well as Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic History Workshop, Harvard University.
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目录
Introduction
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
Reflections on the Concept of “Prerequisites” of Modern Industrialization
Social Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development
Notes on the Rate of Industrial Growth in Italy, 1881-1913
Rosario Romeo and the Original Accumulation of Capital
Russia: Patterns and Problems of Economic Development, 1861-1958
Economic Development in Russian Intellectual History of the Nineteenth Century
Annex: Realism and Utopia in Russian Economic Thought, A Review
Some Aspects of Industrialization in Bulgaria, 1878-1939
Soviet Heavy Industry: A Dollar Index of Output, 1927-1937
Notes on the Rate of Industrial Growth in Soviet Russia
Industrial Enterprise in Soviet Russia
A Neglected Source of Economic Information on Soviet Russia
Reflections on Soviet Novels
Notes on Doctor Zhivago
The Approach to European Industrialization: A Postscript
Appendix I: Description of an Index of Italian Industrial Development, 1881-1913
Appendix II: Industrialization in Bulgaria, Basic Data and Calculations
Appendix III: Problems of Measuring Long-Term Growth in Income and Wealth
Index
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读书文摘
然而，我相信，这部小说叫《日瓦戈医生》并没有辜负它的书名，它将作为件有永久价值的艺术作品而存在，这种艺术对“国家的缪斯（Lsmuses d'Etat）”不予理睬，拒绝“被权威当局控制嘴巴”，并且毫无畏惧地宣布这样一个永恒的真理：创造性的能力和自由二者之间的不可分离就如同人的生命与人的呼吸之不可分一样。
它原来是要集中讨论安东尼奥·格拉姆希（Antonio Gramsci）的被广泛接受的观点
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