Before and beyond divergence the politics of economic change in China and Europe

Rosenthal and Wong show that relative prices matter to how economies evolve; institutions can have a large effect on relative prices; and the spatial scale of polities can affect the choices of institutions in the long run. Their perspective on institutional change has implications for understanding...

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Main Authors: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (Author), Wong, Roy Bin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Harvard University Press 2011
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Call Number :HC 427 .R66 2011

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Space and politics -- Population, resources, and economic growth -- Formal and informal mechanisms for market development -- Warfare, location of manufacturing, and economic growth in China and Europe -- Credit markets and economic change -- Autocrats, war, taxes, and public goods -- Political economies of growth, 1500-1950 -- Conclusion: Findings, methods and implications 
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