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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanc
| Title | : | The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (836 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0691090106 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2001-12-09 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade.Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in ener
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