Penulis buku yang tepat waktu dan provokatif ini menggunakan perangkat analisis ekonomi untuk meneliti pembentukan dan perubahan batas politik. Mereka berpendapat bahwa meskipun isu-isu ini selalu menjadi inti analisis historis, para ekonom internasional cenderung menganggap ukuran suatu negara sebagai "eksogen", atau tidak lebih mudah dijelaskan daripada lokasi pegunungan atau aliran sungai. A…
Includes index.A provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the cour…