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Article: A Concise Economic History of the World From Palaeolithic Times to the Present.(Review)
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- New Zealand Economic Papers
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- June 1, 1999
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A Concise Economic History of the World From Palaeolithic Times to the Present, by R Cameron, (New York: Oxford University Press), 1997, i-xxi + 454pp., ISBN 0 195107810
To consider the economic history of any period in and beyond the modern era is a daunting enterprise; in writing a history of the world from the beginnings of human civilisation, Cameron takes on a truly herculean task, and in doing so, has produced a work the semi-deity would have been proud of. Inevitably, this is a very idiosyncratic interpretation. Thumbing his nose at the theoretical and applied economic community, Cameron includes only one algebraic expression (for national income, p. 19), ...