How rich countries have become rich, and why poor countries remain poor. 10th edition. Rainert E.S.

In this book, the famous Norwegian economist Eric Rainert shows that rich countries have become rich thanks to the combination of state intervention, protectionism and strategic investment, and not thanks to free trade. According to the author, it was such a policy that was the key to successful economic development, from the Italy of the Renaissance and ending with today's countries of Southeast Asia. Showing that modern economists ignore this approach, insisting on the importance of free trade, Rainert explains this by a long-standing split in economic science between the continental-European tradition, focused on a comprehensive state policy, on the one hand, and the Anglo-American, oriented to free trade, - on the other.

written in an accessible language, the book is of interest not only for specialists in economic history and theory, but also for a wide range of readers.