Escaping Poverty

by Vries, P. H. H.

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Title Statements

Full title :Escaping Poverty / Peer Vries.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):V & R unipress
Place of Publication:Göttingen
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (516 pages) : : illustrations, charts, figures, tables

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783847001683, 384700168X
oclc:on1028754237
LC Classification:HC254.5
Dewey Decimal:338.941/009/033

Subjects

China Comparative economics Développement économique Développement économique -- Histoire. -… economic development Economic development -- History. -- Gre… Economic history Économie politique comparée Great Britain Histoire économique History Pauvreté Pauvreté -- Histoire. -- Chine Poverty Poverty -- History. -- China