Before and Beyond Divergence

by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong

Book Overview

China 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057910
• ISBN13: 9780674057913
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"