Thomas R Gottschang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas R Gottschang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gottschang |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTSCHANG T R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What If Piketty Is Right? Real Economic Costs of Rising Income Inequality
Thomas Piketty's analysis of income and wealth distribution, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the most affluent, while lower and middle class real incomes have stagnated; he warns that this trend could have “potentially terrifying” results, possibly even violent revolution. This article presents evidence that growing inequality weakens the entire economy by eroding the pu…
Swallows and Settlers
Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world.\nSwallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that mi…
The Making of a Hinterland
This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation, and popular protest, and analyzes the c…
The Economy’s Continued Growth
Essay| September 01 1992 The Economy’s Continued Growth Thomas R. Gottschang Thomas R. Gottschang Thomas R. Gottschang is an associate professor of economics at Holy Cross College. He has written on the economy of early twentieth-century China and recently edited a volume on China’s rural economic reforms in the 1980s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1992) 91 (566): 268–272. https://doi.o…
Seeds and World Agricultural Progress. Neil McMullen
Economic Change, Disasters, and Migration
Economic Change, Disasters, and Migration
Seeds and World Agricultural Progress. Neil McMullen
The Economy’s Continued Growth
Essay| September 01 1992 The Economy’s Continued Growth Thomas R. Gottschang Thomas R. Gottschang Thomas R. Gottschang is an associate professor of economics at Holy Cross College. He has written on the economy of early twentieth-century China and recently edited a volume on China’s rural economic reforms in the 1980s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1992) 91 (566): 268–272. https://doi.o…
The Making of a Hinterland
This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation, and popular protest, and analyzes the c…
Swallows and Settlers
Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world.\nSwallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that mi…
What If Piketty Is Right? Real Economic Costs of Rising Income Inequality
Thomas Piketty's analysis of income and wealth distribution, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the most affluent, while lower and middle class real incomes have stagnated; he warns that this trend could have “potentially terrifying” results, possibly even violent revolution. This article presents evidence that growing inequality weakens the entire economy by eroding the pu…
Geography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · China (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works)