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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-371) and index.
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Table of Contents

Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development — Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development — Market economies in Europe and Asia — Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism — Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia — Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia — Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780691005430
Subtitle:
(Europe, China, and the making of the modern world economy )
Author:
Pomeranz, Kenneth
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, N.J. :
Subject:
History
Subject:
China
Subject:
Economic Development
Subject:
Economics - International
Subject:
Europe
Subject:
Economic Conditions
Subject:
Economic History
Subject:
Comparative economics
Subject:
International - Economics
Series:
Princeton Economic History of the Western World (Hardcover)
Series Volume:
no. 2
Publication Date:
c2000
Binding:
Trade Cloth
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
x, 382 p.
Dimensions:
9.47x6.32x1.16 in. 1.14 lbs.
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