China, Europe, and the Great Divergence

A Restatement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10104662
AutoresStephen Broadberry (0000-0003-2846-8193, Peking University, autor de correspondencia), Hanhui Guan (0009-0003-6015-4837, Peking University), David Daokui Li (Tsinghua University)
Año2021
Volumen81
Número3
Páginas958-974
Fecha de publicación2021-06-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050721000292
OpenAlexW3175235129
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas13

Peter Solar highlights some shortcomings of our treatment of government spending. However, correcting for these shortcomings using data rather than assumptions confirms our principal findings. GDP per capita in the leading region of China remained around the same level as in the leading region of Europe until the eighteenth century before declining substantially during the Qing dynasty. The Great Divergence thus began around 1700, earlier than originally suggested by the California School, but later than implied by earlier writers. The new data do not support Solar’s novel chronology with its Great Crossing, Great Convergence and Greater Divergence

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