The Origins of Poverty and Wealth

Asuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Gdansk, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tbilisi, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zurich - these are just a few of the stops on Rainer Zitelmann's world tour. The historian and sociologist traveled to thirty countries on four continents in twenty months, covering over 160,000 miles. The author presents an exciting mix of personal impressions, historical research, results of international surveys and, above all, hundre...