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Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
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Hardback. Why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? The authors combine economic theory and historical evidence to argue that political processes drove the economic divergence between the two world regions, with continued consequences today that become clear in this innovative account. Num Pages: 290 pages, 4 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?
Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China’s early and more recent prosperity and for Europe’s difficulties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during early industrialization.
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Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
290
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674057913
SKU
V9780674057913
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About Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics at the California Institute of Technology. R. Bin Wong is Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe
Before and Beyond Divergence addresses the old 'Why Europe? Why not China?' question by presenting clear, original, and provocative arguments. It is an important contribution, both substantively and methodologically.
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine An important contribution that will force a wide variety of scholars to rethink what they know about both China and Europe and that ... Read more
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine An important contribution that will force a wide variety of scholars to rethink what they know about both China and Europe and that ... Read more