Journal ArticleDOI
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Robert B. Marks,Kenneth Pomeranz +1 more
About:
This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 2001-06-01. It has received 182 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: World economy & Great Divergence.read more
Citations
More filters
Posted Content
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth, focusing on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology and population over the course of human history.
Book
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia.
Journal ArticleDOI
The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Quamrul H. Ashraf,Oded Galor +1 more
TL;DR: The level of genetic diversity within a society is found to have a hump-shaped effect on development outcomes in both the pre-colonial and the modern era, reflecting the trade-off between the beneficial and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity.
Book ChapterDOI
Governance and Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss whether or not "governance" is an important source of variation in development experiences and draw four main conclusions: governance is best thought of a subset of "institutions" and as such emphasis on governance is consistent with much recent academic work Nevertheless, governance is a quite vague rubric which is difficult to unbundle.
ReportDOI
Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal
TL;DR: The authors argue that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple correlations suggest, and that the nations that gained the most from globalization are those poor ones that changed their policies to exploit it, while the ones that gain the least did not, or were too isolated to do so.