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2025-02-02
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作者簡介:周琳,清華大學院曆史係。 文章來源:《清華大學學報:哲社版》,2009年第1期,第50-58頁。 摘要:在中國社會經濟史學界,“加州學派”近年來影響日益擴大,其觀點正變得日益清晰和引人矚目。“加州學派”並不是一個無差彆的整體,而是不同國彆、不同研究領域、不同...
評分had the honor of meeting with the two authors today, so it occurred to me that I should write a review for this book. if you look at the literature, the cooperation between economics and history is way less successful than I once thought.To quote this book...
評分 評分 評分圖書標籤: 經濟史 海外中國研究 曆史 Bin.Wong Economics 歐洲 王國斌 history
王國斌你玩的這麼高端我看不懂啊……先存起來吧。
評分邏輯詭異但又完美。。。有些論點論據不足,該模型很多地方還是不適用。
評分隻看每個chapter的開頭結尾,略去中間隻抓結論,沒辦法精讀真的來不及瞭……感覺還是王國斌一貫的主張,然後和彭慕蘭原著套瞭一下,算是對彭著一個很好的補充……姑且算是為整個研究範式添磚加瓦瞭吧
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。
評分日益無感於此類不可證不可知的問題。
Before and Beyond Divergence 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載