Growth Recurring Economic Change in World History

Name: Growth Recurring Economic Change in World History
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ISBN: 9780472067282

ISBN-10: 0472067281

ISBN-13: 9780472067282

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Eric Lionel Jones

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This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, it is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks. One replaces industrial revolution or great discontinuity as the source of change and challenges the reader to accept early periods and non-western societies as vital to understanding the growth process. The second offers a new explanation in which tendencies for growth were omnipresent but were usually--though not always--suppressed. Finally, the erosion of these negative factors is discussed,…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English




Introduction



How It All Really Began: A know-all's guide to the industrial revolution



Economic growth as virgin birth



Overcoming the Primal Forces: Intimations of ancient growth



The case of Sung China



An Anatomy of Frustration: The mills of God



Conquests



Derivative effects



The lethargic state



Growth Recurring: Japan



Europe



Summary and conclusion


Notes


Select bibliographical guide


Bibliography


Index