George Gunton’s Divergent View on the Origin of the Great Divergence: The Dynamics of Social Wants in England and India

Most contemporary historians have proposed a multitude of supply-side factors that arguably propelled the Great Divergence between the West and the East.  A late nineteenth-century economist, George Gunton, instead proposed a demand-centric theory to explain the root cause for the divergence betwee...

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Main Author: Sashi Sivramkrishna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Economic & Business History Society 2023-02-01
Series:Essays in Economic and Business History
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Online Access:https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/515