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The political economy of chinese rural industry and commerce in historical perspective
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Jian wang zhi lai : Zhongguo yu quan qiu li shi bian qian de mo shi yu she hui li lun
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ISBN: 9789578614253 957861425X Year: 2019 Publisher: Xinzhu Shi : Guo li jiao tong da xue chu ban she,

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Before and beyond divergence
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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.

Nourish the people : the state civilian granary system in China, 1650-1850
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ISBN: 9780892640911 9780892640904 089264091X 0892640901 0472127861 0472901826 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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