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

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Main Author: Pomeranz, Kenneth
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world
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Online Access:CONNECT
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.