Books by E L Jones
Eric Jones is a British-Australian economic historian.
“Many scholars have taken Jones as a starting point for thinking about the Great Divergence, though not all have agreed with him. Also, he’s not just examining Europe in isolation. He looks at the Ottoman, the Chinese and the Indian Mughal empires. He tries to explain why these similarly advanced civilizations don’t succeed in reaching industrialization first, because it seems that these commercial societies, with high levels of trade integration and often advanced intellectual cultures, should be much better sites than violent, often backwards-seeming Europe for producing industrialization. His comparative perspective is something that has borne fruit” Read more...
The best books on The Great Divergence
Davis Kedrosky, Economist
“In this book, Jones established two parallel worlds, Europe and Asia. He argued that intensive growth of the modern type, i.e. growth with better technology and high per capita income, occurred in both worlds. The first recorded such growth was China under the Sung (Song) Period of the 10th to 13th centuries. Then, there was a similar growth in Tokugawa Japan of the 17th to 19th centuries. These were the forerunners of the British Industrial Revolution.” Read more...
The best books on China in the World Economy
Kent Deng, Economist
Interviews where books by E L Jones were recommended
The best books on China in the World Economy, recommended by Kent Deng
Professor Kent Deng says there are no grounds for Eurocentricism in explaining the world history of economic growth. Intensive growth of the modern type was first recorded in Song dynasty China
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The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia
by E L Jones -
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz -
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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
by Joel Mokyr -
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Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond -
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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
by Jared Rubin & Mark Koyama
The best books on The Great Divergence, recommended by Davis Kedrosky
The best books on The Great Divergence, recommended by Davis Kedrosky
After a slow start, why did northwest Europe move ahead of the rest of the world in the early modern period and establish an economic dominance whose effects are felt to this day? Davis Kedrosky, a student at Berkeley and publisher of the economic history newsletter, Great Transformations, introduces ‘the Great Divergence’ and suggests some books that get to the heart of the question.
