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Before and beyond divergence : the politics of economic change in China and Europe /

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 r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (Autor), Wong, Roy Bin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Space and politics
  • Population, resources, and economic growth
  • Formal and informal mechanisms for market development
  • Warfare, location of manufacturing, and economic growth in China and Europe
  • Credit markets and economic change
  • Autocrats, war, taxes, and public goods
  • Political economies of growth, 1500-1950
  • Conclusion: Findings, methods and implications.