Prof. Dr. Heiko Staroßom
innovations are not "advanced technologies", which the technology mudslide hypothesis would lead one to expect. Rather, they are often novel combinations of existing off-the-shelf components, applied [...] two extremely different worlds. But the younger Chinese people, privileged as they already are in an one child family environment, have only seen yearly double digit increases of the Chinese Gross Domestic [...] the facts part: Sometimes a little knowledge about history helps, but – maybe – eco-nomic history is one of the most overlooked topics in economics. In his marvelous book "A Farewell to Alms – A brief economic