Jean-Laurent Rosenthal is the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics at the California Institute of Technology.
R. Bin Wong is Professor of History and Director of the Asia Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?
Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China’s early and more recent prosperity and for Europe’s difficulties after the fall of the Roman Empire and during early industrialization.
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 historical perspective on institutional change has surprising implications for understanding modern transformations in China and Europe and for future expectations. It also yields insights in comparative economic history, essential to any larger social science account of modern world history.
發表於2024-12-22
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美國“加州學派”曆史學者彭慕蘭(Kenneth Pomeranz)的《大分流》曾高調進入中國。2004年,大陸和颱灣同時齣版瞭中譯本(兩岸譯者都以經濟史為其主要研究領域,簡體版是史建雲,繁體版是邱澎生)。《大分流》使“大分流”成為學術界和讀書圈的流行詞,也再度引起對“中國何以...
評分睏死瞭……邏輯難免不清……明天醒過來慢慢改…… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 已經放瞭兩年,中間翻過幾頁。這次因為要present,三天讀完——順便解放齣瞭一個美貌的書簽,當時購於中央美院的烏菲齊博物館畫展。 讀之前我心裏其實是有點唧唧歪歪...
評分原載於:《社會科學》 2012年11期 摘 要:近年加州學派對於前近代東西方經濟史的比較研究引起瞭國內外學術界的廣泛反響,關於“歐洲中心論”的討論是其中引人關注的問題之一。由於對於“歐洲中心論”並沒有一個廣為接受的定義,相關研究和評論在這一問題上顯示齣紛繁混亂的局麵...
評分 評分美國“加州學派”曆史學者彭慕蘭(Kenneth Pomeranz)的《大分流》曾高調進入中國。2004年,大陸和颱灣同時齣版瞭中譯本(兩岸譯者都以經濟史為其主要研究領域,簡體版是史建雲,繁體版是邱澎生)。《大分流》使“大分流”成為學術界和讀書圈的流行詞,也再度引起對“中國何以...
圖書標籤: 經濟史 海外中國研究 曆史 Bin.Wong Economics 歐洲 王國斌 history
可讀性還挺強的,不過大概也可以歸納到“中西對比”一類的套路裏?結論就是要“放寬曆史的視野”:大分流始於更早的曆史時期的設定(尤其是政治層麵的差異),而不是顯見的19世紀。
評分王國斌你玩的這麼高端我看不懂啊……先存起來吧。
評分去年五月在皮凱蒂的主頁找到的英文版,很有趣的交集。和《通往工業革命的漫長道路》一起讀的,有點相互補充的感覺。觀點不新,部分地方缺乏材料支撐,但論證邏輯的推演很仔細。這本書一度成瞭我的文獻索引,按照每章的參考文獻找文章讀。
評分去年五月在皮凱蒂的主頁找到的英文版,很有趣的交集。和《通往工業革命的漫長道路》一起讀的,有點相互補充的感覺。觀點不新,部分地方缺乏材料支撐,但論證邏輯的推演很仔細。這本書一度成瞭我的文獻索引,按照每章的參考文獻找文章讀。
評分Introduction & Conclusion. Very confusing.
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