Paul Bairoch
Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes.
The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Third printing. 0226034631 xvi/184 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is like new. 
"Paul Bairoch sets the record straight on twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these are that free trade and population growth have historically led to periods of economic growth; that a move away from free trade caused the Great Depression; and that colonial powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became rich through the exploitation of the Third World. Bairoch argues that these beliefs are based on insufficient knowledge and misguided interpretations of the economic history of the United States, Europe, and the Third World."