Escaping Poverty

• Egile nagusia: Vries, Peer (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: 2013
• Gaiak: Economics; Capitalism; China; Europe; Great Divergence; Industrial Revolution; Labour economics; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• Sarrera elektronikoa: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and th...