Escaping poverty the origins of modern economic growth
One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Göttingen :
V&R unipress
2013
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425214206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; 1. The emergence and non-emergence of modern economic growth; 2. Taking off and falling (further) behind; 3. Two case studies: Great Britain and China in the very long eighteenth century; 4. Continuity and change, inevitability and contingency; 5. Old clichés about Asia''s economic past that are no longer tenable; 6. Income, growth and wealth: problems of measurement; 7. Industrial Revolution and Great Divergence; 8. Malthusian constraints, premodern growth and modern growth; Part one: Economists and theories of economic growth
- 1. Introduction2. Land, resources, geography; 3. Labour: the effect of quantities; 4. Labour quality: human capital; 5. Consumption; 6. Capital and capital accumulation; 7. Specialisation and exchange; 8. Innovation; 9. Institutions: property rights, markets and states; 10. Culture and economic growth; Part two: Actual explanations of the Great Divergence; 1. The Great Divergence and geography; 2. Geography, factor endowments and institutions; 3. Geography and institutions: Britain and China, wheat versus rice; 4. Geography: town versus countryside, urbanising Great Britain and rural China
- 5. Labour: scarcity and abundance6. Factor endowments: labour-saving Britain versus labour-absorbing China; 7. High wages and low wages: stimuli and traps?; 8. Labour-extensive and labour-intensive routes to growth?; 9. Human capital: labour and its skills; 10. Human capital: labour and discipline; 11. Consumption; 12. Accumulation, income and wealth; 13. Primitive accumulation: bullion and slaves; 14. Intercontinental trade; 15. Globalisation and Great Divergence: How the Third World came into existence; 16. Ghost acreages
- 17. Innovation provides the key rather than accumulation or ghost acreage18. Innovation: technology and science; 19. A seriously underestimated factor: enhanced productivity because of institutional and organisational innovation; 20. Ultimate causes: institutions; 21. Markets and property rights; 22. Institutions: markets and varieties of pre-industrial capitalism; 23. Wage labour and world-system: Why it does not make sense to call Qing China capitalist and why capitalism''s origins should be considered uniquely Western; 24. Markets: sizes and characteristics
- 25. The institution of institutions: The role of the state, in particular that of Britain26. Was industrialising Britain a developmental state?; 27. The European state system and the development of civil society: the non-monopolisation of the sources of social power; 28. Culture and growth: Western cultural exceptionalism and how to measure it; 29. Culture does make a difference. But how can one convincingly prove that?; Why not China?; A world of striking differences; Concluding comments; 1. Geography; 2. Labour and consumption; 3. Accumulation; 4. Specialisation and exchange; 5. Innovation
- 6. Institutions: markets, property rights and states
