Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

By Philip C. Huang. Journal of Asian Studies, 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/cabcfee38d9432719c17a5fb9fe831d454fb071a

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• China, Europe, and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical National Accounting, 980–1850 (2017, unknown): “…to this one sector of the economy.16 The idea of a decline in GDP per capita during the Qing dynasty is also most obviously consistent with the work of Huang (1985, 2002), who argues that the rapid population expansion at this time led to a growing division of land holdings into ever-smaller plots.”