001478997 000__ 05812nam\a22009615i\4500 001478997 001__ 1478997 001478997 003__ DE-B1597 001478997 005__ 20231026035007.0 001478997 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478997 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478997 008__ 230918t20112011mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478997 020__ $$a9780674061293 001478997 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674061293$$2doi 001478997 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178255 001478997 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478997 0410_ $$aeng 001478997 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478997 050_4 $$aHC427$$b.R66 2011eb 001478997 072_7 $$aBUS023000$$2bisacsh 001478997 08204 $$a330.94$$222 001478997 1001_ $$aRosenthal, Jean-Laurent, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001478997 24510 $$aBefore and Beyond Divergence :$$bThe Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe /$$cRoy Bin Wong, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. 001478997 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011] 001478997 264_4 $$c©2011 001478997 300__ $$a1 online resource (290 p.) :$$b4 maps, 3 tables 001478997 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478997 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478997 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478997 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478997 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction: Miracles, Myths, and Explanations in Economic History -- $$t1 Space and Politics -- $$t2 Population, Resources, and Economic Growth -- $$t3 Formal and Informal Mechanisms for Market Development -- $$t4 Warfare, Location of Manufacturing, and Economic Growth in China and Europe -- $$t5 Credit Markets and Economic Change -- $$t6 Autocrats, War, Taxes, and Public Goods -- $$t7 Political Economies of Growth, 1500- 1950 -- $$tConclusion: Findings, Methods, and Implications -- $$tNotes -- $$tReferences -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001478997 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478997 520__ $$aChina 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. 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