ISBN:
9781009039444
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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DDC:
338.01
Abstract:
Students of history, politics, economic change, social hierarchy, and even Fascism will view this book as provocative and indispensable. It illuminates how plagues, blockades, migrations, and such world-changing innovations as the invention of printing precipitate political and social revolutions in some societies but peaceful adaptation in others.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 How Supply Shocks Arise and Why Political Responses to Them Vary -- Gains and Losses -- Equality vs. Inequality -- Generalizing to Multiple Factors and Indirect Shocks -- Summary -- Illustrative Examples -- Labor -- Decrease -- Increase -- Land -- Physical Capital -- Gain -- Loss -- Human Capital -- Gain -- Loss -- Trade Shocks -- Conclusion -- Appendix to Chapter 1 The Equivalence of Major Measures of Inequality -- 2 Who Adjusts to a Supply Shock and Who Resists It: Three Determining Factors -- Factor Substitution -- Factor Mobility -- Exit -- Technological or Institutional Remedies -- 3 Why a Technological Solution Does, or Does Not, Emerge -- Intensity of Incentives -- Innovative Fertility -- Overshooting: When the Endogenous Becomes Exogenous -- Shocks of Sudden Abundance -- Institutions as Technology -- The Role of Government -- Military Technology -- Conclusion -- Appendix to Chapter 3 -- 4 Exogenous Loss of Labor: The Black Death in Fourteenth-Century Europe -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe and Western Russia -- Conclusion -- Appendices to Chapter 4 -- 5 Exogenous Gain of Labor: Railroads, Reproduction, and Revolution: The Russian Population Explosion, 1850-1914 -- Russia as a Case of Exogenous Population Growth -- The Atypical Consequences of Population Growth in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- Industrialization: The Rising Ratio of Capital to Labor and the Mobilization of Surplus Labor -- The Perils of Uneven Development: The Areas Left Behind -- A Connection to Regional Unrest? -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 6 Exogenous Loss of Land: Blockade, Hunger, and the Nazi Pursuit of Lebensraum -- Europe's Food Insecurity.
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