The Great Divergence Reconsidered

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-02054-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Contrary to popular narratives, The Great Divergence Reconsidered shows that Europe's rise to its current status as an undisputed world economic leader was not the effect of the Industrial Revolution, nor can it be explained by coal or colonial exploitation. Using a wealth of new historical evidence, Roman Studer shows that the Great Divergence occurred in the seventeenth century, if not earlier. When compared to India and other parts of the Asiatic world, early modern Europe was characterized by a more powerful transportation system, bigger trade flows, larger and better integrated markets, higher productivity levels, and superior living standards, even before the Industrial Revolution brought about far-reaching structural changes and made Europe's supremacy even more pronounced. Thus, an interplay of various factors best explains Europe's early and gradual rise, including better institutions, favorable geographical features, increasing political stability, and increasingly rapid advances in science and technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Studer, Roman

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Industrielle Organisation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Determinants of market integration; 3. Gauging the level of market integration; 4. Geography and the story of the many Europes; 5. Markets versus climate in Europe and India; 6. Economic integration in India and Europe; 7. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Studer, Roman
Roman Studer has worked in both academia and in the private sector, and he is currently the chief operating officer of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society at the University of Zürich. He held the positions of research assistant and then postdoctoral prize research fellow at Oxford University before becoming a career-track lecturer at the London School of Economics. In the private sector, he has worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group and as a governmental affairs advisor for UBS, where he also held a key project role in the creation of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society. He was awarded the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize by the Economic History Association for the best dissertation in international economic history.