The great divergence China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy
This text offers insight into one of the classic questions of history: why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As the author shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the wor...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
cop. 2000
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| Colección: | The Princeton economic history of the Western world
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development
- Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development
- Market economies in Europe and Asia
- Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism
- Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia
- Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia
- Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.
