How Long to Read Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich'

How Long Does it Take to Read Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich'?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich' by Philipp von Hörnigk

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Between its first date of publication in 1684 and 1784 classic 'Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will' went through more than twenty known editions which makes it, arguably, Europe's most successful 'economics textbook' prior to Adam Smith's 'Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations' (1776). Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk laid in this book the foundations of what has become known as the 'mercantilist' political economy - a strategy for achieving national wealth and political strength simultaneously by building up a competitive domestic manufacturing industry with the help of the state. Hörnigk advocated standard recipes known from modern development economics, such as import substitution, protective tariffs on select goods as well as bounties and other financial as also logistic support by a proactive interventionist state in order to safeguard and nurture domestic industries that were in a state of infancy but which would be promising candidates for future growth and economies of scale. As new work by Erik Reinert and Lars Magnusson has shown, contrary to a sort of mainstream view in modern economics and economic history, it was such policies that tended to make European countries rich in the pre-industrial age, also laying the basic foundations for subsequent industrialization - even the 'Great Divergence' between Europe and Asia post 1800. Most European states were interventionist during the nineteenth century. They obviously drew upon a menu of recipes and political economy schedules that had circulated widely in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and which would subsequently also influence the major works by Friedrich List, Daniel Raymond and other nineteenth-century development theorists. Based on Hörnigk's popularity and the publication pattern for the book, the 'Hörnigk' strategy stood at the core of many a treatise and book written on economic matters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe; in fact Hörnigk may be called the forefather of modern development economics. He certainly was a towering figure in the 'Germanic' economic discourses of the early modern period. 'Austria Supreme, if It So Wishes (1684)' will be the first-ever English translation of a work the importance of which for European economic development and the 'European Miracle' cannot be overestimated.

How long is Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich'?

Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich' by Philipp von Hörnigk is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich' Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich' aloud.

What Reading Level is Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich'?

Austria Supreme, If It So Wishes (1684)': 'a Strategy That Made Europe Rich' is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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