Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?

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Size and dynastic decline: The principal-agent problem in late imperial China, 1700–1850 (2014, background): “A prominent view, drawing from Marx, held that China’s development was hampered by the presence of an autocratic, managerial, and interventionist state (Wittfogel, 1957; Balazs, 1964; Landes, 2006).”
Entrepreneurship and Growth (2011, background): “This is the question posed and answered by David Landes (2006).”
Banking on the Confucian Clan: Why China Developed Financial Markets So Late (2021, background): “Given the extreme emphasis of Confucianism on the status quo and stability – as it is conservative, averse to change and learning from outsiders, and hostile to commerce (Weber, 1930; Landes, 2006) – we expect that in prefectures with strong clans, people had little incentive or desire to start mode”