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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.