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The great divergence : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy

By: Pomeranz, Kenneth.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Princeton economic history of the Western world: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2000Description: x, 382 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0691005435; 9780691090108 (pbk.); 0691090106 (pbk.).Subject(s): Economic development -- History | Comparative economics | -- 18th century | Europe -- Economic conditions -- 19th century | ChinaDDC classification: 337
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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Non Fiction Non Fiction BardBerlinLibrary
2nd floor
337 POM 2000 (Browse shelf) Available

Subtitle varies between "China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy", and "Europe, China, and the making of the modern world economy".

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

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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