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An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1700 to 1870.
List of contents
Introduction to Volume I Stephen Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao; Part I. Regional Developments: 1. Britain, the industrial revolution and modern economic growth Stephen Broadberry; 2. Continental Europe Giovanni Federico and Andrei Markevich; 3. Tokugawa Japan and the foundations of modern economic growth in Asia Masaki Nakabayashi; 4. China: the start of the great divergence Christopher Isett; 5. From the Mughals to the Raj: India 1700-1858 Anand V. Swamy; 6. Sustainable development in South East Asia Jean-Pascal Bassino; 7. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1870 ¿evket Pamuk; 8. The economic history of North America, 1700-1870 Joshua L. Rosenbloom; 9. Latin America: 1700-1870 Regina Grafe; 10. Africa: slavery and the world economy, 1700-1870 Patrick Manning; 11. Australia: geography and institutions David Meredith; Part II. Factors Governing Differential Outcomes in the Global Economy: 12. Population and human development since 1700 Osamu Saito and Romola Davenport; 13. Proximate sources of growth: capital and technology, 1700-1870 Alessandro Nuvolari and Masayuki Tanimoto; 14. Underlying sources of growth: first and second nature geography Paul Caruana-Galizia, Tomoko Hashino and Max-Stephan Schulze; 15. Institutions John Joseph Wallis; 16. Consequences of growth: living standards, inequality and consumption Jan Luiten van Zanden, Bas van Leeuwen and Yi Xu; 17. International transactions: real trade and factor flows Wolfgang Keller, Markus Lampe and Carol H. Shiue; 18. Monetary systems and the global balance of payments adjustment in the pre-gold standard period, 1700-1870 Rui Esteves and Pilar Nogues-Marco; 19. War and empire, 1700-1870 Philip T. Hoffman and Tirthankar Roy.
Summary
This volume offers an unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth, focusing on the period from 1700 to 1870. It offers both regional studies from across the globe and thematic analyses to consider the key factors governing differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy.
