The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World

by Michael Spence

Book Overview

A "Washington Post" Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world's population started to experience extraordinary economic growth leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world. This pattern of divergence reversed after World War II, and now we are midway through a century of high and accelerating growth in the developing world and a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374159750
• ISBN13: 9780374159757
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"