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oapen-20.500.12657-315832023-07-19T08:04:04Z Escaping Poverty Vries, Peer Economics Capitalism China Europe Great Divergence Industrial Revolution Labour economics United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-02-25 08:50:56 2020-04-01T13:40:39Z 2020-04-01T13:40:39Z 2013 book 626977 OCN: 1028754237 9783847101680 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31583 eng application/pdf n/a 626977.pdf V&R unipress 10.14220/9783737001687 100299 10.14220/9783737001687 Brill b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783847101680 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) V&R unipress 100299 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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