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Living Standards in the Past : New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe.
Why did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic growth before China, India or Japan? This is one of the most fundamental questions in Economic History and one that has provoked intense debate. The main concern of this book is to determine when the gap in living standards between the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 Standards of Living in Eighteenth-Century China: Regional Differences, Temporal Trends, and Incomplete Evidence; 2 Farm Labour Productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850; 3 Wages, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Growth in Japan, 1727-1894; 4 Agriculture, Labour, and the Standard of Living in Eighteenth-Century India; 5 Real Wages in Europe and Asia: A First Look at the Long-Term Patterns; 6 Sketching the Rise of Real Inequality in Early Modern Europe.
- 7 What Happened to the Standard of Living Before the Industrial Revolution? New Evidence from the Western Part of the Netherlands8 Economic Growth, Human Capital Formation and Consumption in Western Europe Before 1800; 9 Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe; 10 The Burden of Grandeur: Physical and Economic Well-Being of the Russian Population in the Eighteenth Century; 11 Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia.
- 12 The Standard of Living in Denmark in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries13 Short-term Demographic Changes in Relation to Economic Fluctuations: The Case of Tuscany During the Pre-Transitional Period; 14 New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Long-Term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-Term Economic Stress; 15 Individuals and Communities Facing Economic Stress: A Comparison of Two Rural Areas in Nineteenth-Century Belgium; 16 Living Standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: Evidence from Demographic Outcomes.
- 17 Demographic Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern VillagesIndex.