Can Africa Export Manufactures? The Role of Endowment, Exchange Rates, and Transaction Costs
Author(s)
Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.
Abstract
The author analyzes historical thought and historical writing in the West. The author attempts to summarize what might be called a “system” of historiographical assumptions and principles within Western society and their implications. Ten propositions concerning the “peculiarities of the West” are presented in approximate order of importance.
