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ISBN: 0674057910 0674061292 9780674061293 9780674057913 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
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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 rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China's early and more recent prosperity and for Europe's difficulties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during early industrialization.Rosenthal and Wong show that relative prices matter to how economies evolve; institutions can have a large effect on relative prices; and the spatial scale of polities can affect the choices of institutions in the long run. Their historical perspective on institutional change has surprising implications for understanding modern transformations in China and Europe and for future expectations. It also yields insights in comparative economic history, essential to any larger social science account of modern world history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Economic History --- Comparative economics --- Business & Economics --- Comparative economics. --- China --- Europe --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Comparative economic systems --- Economics, Comparative --- Economic policy --- Economics --- E-books
ISBN: 9780892640911 9780892640904 089264091X 0892640901 0472127861 0472901826 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,
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Grain trade --- Granaries --- Food supply --- Agriculture and state --- Céréales --- Greniers (Entrepôts) --- Aliments --- Politique agricole --- Government policy --- History. --- Commerce --- Politique gouvernementale --- Histoire --- Approvisionnement --- S20/0310 --- S10/0210 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Rice and wheat: general and before 1949 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- Céréales --- Greniers (Entrepôts) --- Grain bins --- Graineries --- Grain --- Storage facilities --- Produce trade --- Food control --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Agrarian question --- Agricultural policy --- State and agriculture --- Economic policy --- Land reform --- History --- Government policy&delete& --- Storage --- History of Asia --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- China
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