Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History - Couverture souple

Jones, Eric Lionel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472067281 ISBN 13 : 9780472067282

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2000

Synopsis

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, explaining the rise of a world economy in which growth has recurred and East Asia takes a prominent place. Eric Jones has written a substantial new introduction for this edition, which includes discussions of early evidence of growth episodes and the relation of these points to the Industrial Revolution, and the relevance of the East Asian "miracle" to his thesis.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Growth Recurring 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. It shows that growth occurred independently in Sung China and Japan as well as in Europe. The second framework offers a new explanation in which tendencies for growth were omnipresent but were usually - though not always - suppressed. The `obstacles to growth' are reviewed and those of general significance identified. Finally, the erosion of these negative factors is discussed, explaining the rise of a world economy in which growth has recurred and East Asia takes a prominent place.

Revue de presse

`Professor Jones writes with admirable clarity and much force ... he seems incapable of writing a book which does not really advance the debate and improve our understanding ... brilliant and learned argument.' Historical Journal

`no summary can do justice to a multi-tiered and sophisticated hypothesis ... as with Jones's earlier work, the thrust of the argument, the range of conceptual interest and empirical reference, and the exceptional learning remind us of the value of well-informed economic historians departing from specialist byways in order to tackle really important questions.' Economic History Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472067281
• ISBN 13: 9780472067282
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible