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.
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.
原载于:《社会科学》 2012年11期 摘 要:近年加州学派对于前近代东西方经济史的比较研究引起了国内外学术界的广泛反响,关于“欧洲中心论”的讨论是其中引人关注的问题之一。由于对于“欧洲中心论”并没有一个广为接受的定义,相关研究和评论在这一问题上显示出纷繁混乱的局面...
评分加州学派与“大分流” 对中西方生产方式和经济发展的差异性研究长期充斥着“宿命论”的观点——无论是文化上,还是制度上。似乎中国有着先天性的不足:中国文化先天上不热爱私有,中国社会先天上抵制契约精神。当然这种基于“西方中心论”的解释在上个世纪就受到了普遍的质疑与...
评分作者简介:周琳,清华大学院历史系。 文章来源:《清华大学学报:哲社版》,2009年第1期,第50-58页。 摘要:在中国社会经济史学界,“加州学派”近年来影响日益扩大,其观点正变得日益清晰和引人瞩目。“加州学派”并不是一个无差别的整体,而是不同国别、不同研究领域、不同...
评分原载于:《社会科学》 2012年11期 摘 要:近年加州学派对于前近代东西方经济史的比较研究引起了国内外学术界的广泛反响,关于“欧洲中心论”的讨论是其中引人关注的问题之一。由于对于“欧洲中心论”并没有一个广为接受的定义,相关研究和评论在这一问题上显示出纷繁混乱的局面...
评分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...
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