Escaping Poverty : The Origins of Modern Economic Growth / Peer Vries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vries, P. H. H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Gottingen : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2013.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100299

ISBN:

9783847101680

OCLC:

863041948

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access