Economic backwardness in historical perspective
Subtitle: a book of essays
By: Alexander Gerschenkron.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780674226005
Subjects: Industries -- Soviet Union.; Industries -- Italy.; Soviet Union -- Economic conditions.
Description: Explores the problems of European industrial development in the 19th century, and of economic and social change in Soviet Russia.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographic notes.
Table of contents: title: Economic backwardness in historical perspective; title: Reflections on the concept of "prerequisites" of modern industrialization; title: Social attitudes, entrepreneurship, and economic development; title: Notes on the rate of industrial growth in Italy, 1881-1913; title: Rosario Romeo and the original accumulation of capital; title: Russia: patterns and problems of economic development, 1861-1958; title: Economic development in Russian intellectual history of the nineteenth century. Annex: realism and Utopia in Russian economic thought, a review; title: Some aspects of industrialization in Bulgaria, 1878-1939; title: Soviet heavy industry: a dollar index of output, 1927-1937; title: Notes on the rate of industrial growth in Soviet Russia; title: Industrial enterprise in Soviet Russia; title: A neglected source of economic information on Soviet Russia; title: Reflections on Soviet novels; title: Notes on Doctor Zhivago.