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Escaping poverty: The origins of modern economic growth

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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 than the rest of the world? Many prominent scholars discussed this question and came up with many different answers. This book provides a systematic analysis of the most important of those answers by means of an analysis of possible explanations in terms of natural resources, labour, capital, the division of labour and market exchange, accumulation and innovation, and as potential underlying determining factors institutions and culture. The author juxtaposes the views of economists / social scientists and of global historians and systematically compares Great Britain and China to illustrate his position.

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Authors
Vries, P.
Corresponding author
Vries, Peer
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2013-04-29
DOI
10.14220/9783737001687
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Business and International Management › Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Social Sciences › Development › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Keywords
poverty, poverty reduction

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