Synthese des principaux faits economiques du monde occidental, jusqu'aux abords du XXIe siecle. Elle examine l'economie antique, medievale et moderne, fait apparaitre les racines du developpement economique et explique les causes du phenomene de l'industrialisation en Europe et dans les autres pays developpes. Cette edition inclut les crises du debut du XXI siecle.
A nice analysis of human history from a pure economic point of view. A good compendium to look when working on a particular subject that deals with a specific historical or political context. Refers the names, schools, ideologies behind many possible analysis (institucional, classic, liberal, marxist, historicist...). Besides good references to economic thinkers and books it shows us the main forces and ways people lived, economies worked, thrived or declined, the reach and extent of economic revolutions or jumps, etc, etc. Although the narrative can be sometimes ideologic (it is Brasseul´s economic analysis) this is a good book. Everyone who tries to understand politics and specially if one studies History this kind of notion (theoretical and practical, how did people live and "earned a living" during each period) is absolutely indispensable.
Provavelmente um dos livros de propaganda mais hilariantes que já li, desde previsões falhadas até aos juízos morais da história este panfleto tem de tudo um pouco. É divertido ver que os capitalistas ainda não arranjaram propaganda ideológica alternativa ao "pos-modernismo".