Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the "Rise of the West" and the Industrial Revolution

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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT STATE ECONOMIES (2004, background): “Also noteworthy is a trend in the analysis of comparative preindustrial economic growth that moves the field far beyond earlier capitalist-centered and Western-centered biases (de Vries 2001, Goldstone 2002).”
Why England? Demographic factors, structural change and physical capital accumulation during the Industrial Revolution (2006, background): “During the late medieval and early modern period, brief expansions — “efflorescences” — occurred in many countries (Braudel, 1973; Goldstone, 2002 ).”
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology (2005, background): “85 See especially Wong (1997); Pomeranz (2000); Goldstone (2002). to argue that the gap in income and living standards is imaginary (or ephemeral), or whether they just feel that it is unjust and unfair, is sometimes hard to tell.84 Yet if the rest of the world is to eventually enjoy the material…”
States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆ (2017, background): “The term ‘growth efflorescences’ was introduced by Goldstone (2002).”