Great Divergence (eBook)

China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

Kenneth Pomeranz (Autor)

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2021
404 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21719-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz's comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence-the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia's economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus. 9 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Andre Gunder Frank • Backwardness • Beijing • Business Ethics • Calculation • Capital Accumulation • Capital good • Capitalism • Captive market • Cash crop • Central Asia • China • coal • Commercialization • Commodity • Comparative Advantage • Competition • Complementary good • Consumer goods • Consumerism • Consumption (Economics) • Continental Europe • crop residue • crop rotation • Currency • debt • deforestation • deindustrialization • Demographics of China • Depreciation • developed country • Diminishing Returns • Division of Labour • Early Modern Europe • East Asia • Eastern Europe • Ecology • Economic Development • Economic Efficiency • Economic Growth • economic liberalism • Economic Power • economic problem • Economics • economy • Economy of China • efficient-market hypothesis • empire-building • Employer of Last Resort • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Europe • Expense • Extended family • famine • Famine Relief • Fertilizer • Finance • Fossil fuel • Free tenant • fuel • Goldsmith • Great Divergence • Growth Accounting • Guangdong • Guangxi • Habib's • Handicraft • hard currency • Hectare • High-yield debt • Household • income • income distribution • industrialisation • Industrial Revolution • Industrious Revolution • Industry • Inferior good • Inflation • Institution • Irrigation • just in case • keeping up with the joneses • laborer • Land use in China • Liberalization • Life Expectancy • livestock • Luxury Goods • Malthusian catastrophe • manure • Market Economy • Measures of national income and output • Mining • Monarchies in Europe • New World Resources • nitrogen • North America • North India • nouveau riche • obsolescence • opportunity cost • Output (economics) • peasant • Peat • percentage • Pig Iron • plough • Political Economy • Population Growth • Precious metal • Primary sector of the economy • Proto-industrialization • purchasing power • Quantity • raw material • Recession • Resource Depletion • saving • Scarcity (social psychology) • Shaanxi • Shandong • shortage • Sichuan • Slavery • social ownership • Southeast Asia • soybean • standard of living • steam engine • Subsistence crisis • Sumptuary law • Superiority (short story) • Supply (economics) • Supply Officer (Royal Navy) • surplus labour • Tael • tariff • Tax • Technological Change • Technology • Textile • The Other Hand • Three-field system • Total Factor Productivity • total loss • Trading nation • underconsumption • Unemployment • unfree labour • usury • vertical integration • Wang Gungwu • warfare • Wealth • Western Europe • Wheat • World Economy • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21719-X / 069121719X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21719-2 / 9780691217192