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1 Online-Ressource (516 pages)
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
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Also issued in print and PDF version
ISBN:
384700168X
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9783847001683
Content:
One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and than the rest of the world? Many prominent scholars discussed this question and came up with many different answers. This book provides a systematic analysis of the most important of those answers by means of an analysis of possible explanations in terms of natural resources, labour, capital, the division of labour and market exchange, accumulation and innovation, and as potential underlying determining factors institutions and culture. The author juxtaposes the views of economists / social scientists and of global historians and systematically compares Great Britain and China to illustrate his position
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Also issued in print and PDF version.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1306095379
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3847101684
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781306095372
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783847101680
Additional Edition:
Print version Escaping Poverty Göttingen : V&R unipress
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
URL:
https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737001687
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Author information:
Vries, Peer 1953-
