Download or read book The Birth of the Western Economy written by Robert Latouche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. The Carolingian Empire, short-lived as it was, is the central feature of those centuries of European history which are usefully if now somewhat unfashionably known as the Dark Ages. This book looks at complexity and diversity of economic conditions and economic aspects of the Dark Age