Escaping Poverty

• मुख्य लेखक: Vries, Peer (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: 2013
• विषय: Economics; Capitalism; China; Europe; Great Divergence; Industrial Revolution; Labour economics; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...