Teaching Company
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
18 CDs (approximately 360 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
From the guidebook. Throughout most of world history, nearly everyone has been poor, life expectancy has been short, and famine has been a frequent visitor. Today, many parts of the world are so wealthy that they regard poverty not as normal but as a special problem that ought to be eliminated. The single great cause of this increase in wealth has been industrialization. We know now beyond question that industrial societies generate wealth, which...