The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

By S. Lee, K. Pomeranz. 2001

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The Global Sociometabolic Transition (2008, background): “Biogeographical factors, in particular the local endowment with accessible coal and ore deposits and water transport, were important prerequisites for the kick-off of the agrarian–industrial regime transition in 18th-century England (cf. Wrigley 1988; Pomeranz 2000; Sieferle et al. 2006).”
How the West "invented" fertility restriction (2013, neutral): “A group of revisionist historians has questioned the traditional consensus that labor productivity in Chinese agriculture was low (Li, 1998; Pomeranz, 2000; Goldstone, 2003).”
Banking on the Confucian Clan: Why China Developed Financial Markets So Late (2021, background): “It provided adequate resource pooling for business and risk sharing for everyday life and supported the largest economy in the world for hundreds of years (Faure, 1989, 2006; Zelin, 2004; Pomeranz, 2009).”
Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth (2013, neutral): “wt = σ(1− α) μ α σ(1− α)π ¶ α α+σ(1−α) c (1−σ)(1−α) α+σ(1−α) e Aat , (26) rt = (1− α)(1− σ)c Nt Z , (27)”
The Facts of Economic Growth (2015, background): “Lucas (2002) emphasizes the role of human capital accumulation, while Hansen and Prescott (2002) focus on a neoclassical model that features a structural transformation from agriculture to manufacturing.”