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The rise of the western world was the ascendency of a relatively backward part of the world to world hegemony between the tenth and the eighteenth centuries. Its realization involved fundamental economic, political and military changes. The focus of this short essay must of necessity concentrate on the economic issues although the political developments cannot, and should not, be overlooked.1
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North, D.C. (1998). The rise of the western world. In: Bernholz, P., Streit, M.E., Vaubel, R. (eds) Political Competition, Innovation and Growth. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60324-2_2
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