大分流重探：欧洲、印度与全球经济强权的兴起

by Roman Studer, 罗曼·施图德, 王文剑 (Translator)

基于丰富的微观历史数据，讲述大分流的宏大故事，本书是经济史“用数据说话”的典范。与学术界的流行看法不同，本书认为，欧洲兴起成为世界经济的领导者，并非源于工业革命，更不能用煤炭和殖民来解释。运用17—20世纪的最新历史数据，作者令人信服地证明：大分流应该追溯到17世纪之前甚至更早。工业革命给欧洲带来了影响深远的结构变迁，确立了欧洲的世界霸权，但早在工业革命之前，欧洲已经具备明显的优越特征：更强大的交通系统，更大的贸易流，规模更大、运转更好的一体化市场，更高的生产率，以及更高的生活水平。本书主要对比的是欧洲与印度，但结论和研究方法具有普适性，也适用于其他地区。

Genres: Economics, History

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is reworking all my thoughts and lectures on the industrial revolution. The most fundamental reason Europe ended up ahead after 1800 had to do with the resources and coerced labor from/of the Americas. And a bunch of other really good insights.

[Krun · Rating 3 out of 5]

Olympic medal in understating colonialism

[Pierre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sort of like a long journal article. A very compelling and convincing argument on the divergence in market integration between Europe and India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The quantitative evidence is excellent, clever, and allows for a number of fascinating historical conclusions to be drawn.