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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development
- A World of Surprising Resemblances. Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development
- Market economies in Europe and Asia
- From New Ethos to New Economy? Consumption, Investment, and Capitalism. Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism
- Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia
- Beyond Smith and Malthus: From Ecological Constraints to Sustained Industrial Growth. Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia
- Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.