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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| Language: | English |
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Economic & Business History Society
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Essays in Economic and Business History |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/515 |