Theory and empirical performance

How industrialization happened and how economic development started ? This
book approaches industrialization and economic development globally, taking
into account the emerging economies represented by BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China, and South Africa) and MIST (Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, and
Turkey), together with emerging nations in Latin America and Africa. The
experiences of the Western European forerunners, along with the paths taken by
the United States, Canada, Japan, and Central and Eastern European countries,
are revisited under a new light of historical studies.