Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

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Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Ronald Findlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke
from Princeton University Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Keeping it short and sweet
  This book is to be bought for the first 7 and a half chapters. It's a solid 4 star rating then. The topic is simply too broad for any single volume book to get 5 stars. In other words, this is a readable bibliography. It doesn't always handle the sources well, so truly, use it as a bibliography!
  The reduction to three stars is entirely based on that the authors completely dropped the ball on colonialization. How it was formed, what role it played in the local economy, how force was used, and how it... more info

• Comprehensive review suitable for the layperson
  I should note that although I do not have a background in economics, I might be the perfect layperson for this book as I do have a degree in history. I understand probably about as much economic theory as most semi-educated people, and hopefully a little more history. For the most part, I could follow along the economic arguments, although a few theoretical points required some review. However, there were quite a few parts where I was glad that I already knew which historic events they referred to, because... more info

• Globalisation? The imparative of attitude chane of country leaders
  This book is like a six layer cake with as layers the periods 1000-1500, 1500 to 1650, 1650 to 1780, 1780 to 1814, 1914 to 1939, 1939 to 2007, and speculations about the future. Within each layer you find descriptions of what happened in seven regions that is Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa with Southwest Asia, Central or Inner Asia, South Asia, and South East Asia. For each region you find wars, rulers, economic development including trade. And, especially important, the interaction and... more info

• Fine Overview and Synthesis; 4.5 Stars
  This well written book is a successful effort to summarize and synthesize a large secondary literature on the history of international trade over the last millenium. The authors adopt a chronological approach starting at 1000 CE and conclude with the recent re-emergence of the high degree of global trade in the last half century. The first chapter offers an overview and methodological discussion. Chapter 2, which stresses the economic importance and sophistication of the Islamic world and China,... more info

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