The great divergence (Record no. 49939)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691090108
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Distributor Name International Book Distributors
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Bill Number ;112529
Bill Date ;20/07/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 337 POM
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kenneth Pomeranz
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The great divergence
Remainder of title : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy
Statement of responsibility, etc /Kenneth Pomeranz
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton, N.J.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , ©2000.
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Extent x, 382 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 24 cm.
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Series statement Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Contents note Comparisons, connections, and narratives of European economic development --<br/>A World of Surprising Resemblances. Europe before Asia? Population, capital accumulation, and technology in explanations of European development --<br/>Market economies in Europe and Asia --<br/>From New Ethos to New Economy? Consumption, Investment, and Capitalism. Luxury consumption and the rise of capitalism --<br/>Visible hands: firm structure, sociopolitical structure, and "capitalism" in Europe and Asia --<br/>Beyond Smith and Malthus: From Ecological Constraints to Sustained Industrial Growth. Shared constraints: ecological strain in Western Europe and East Asia --<br/>Abolishing the land constraint: the Americas as a new kind of periphery.
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Summary, etc <br/>This text offers insight into one of the classic questions of history: why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As the author shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, he demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade. The author argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths, paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Science
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Genre/form data or focus term Comparative economics
Non-focus term Economic history
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Personal name Kenneth Pomeranz
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 25/07/2018 2684.00 2 337 POM 25393 02/04/2023 16/09/2022 25/07/2018 Books
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