Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe
Seventeen papers bring together evidence concerning living standards in pre-industrial Europe and Asia and shed new light on when the gap in living standards between the East and West first emerged. Papers examine standards of living in eighteenth-century China; farm labor productivity in Jiangnan,...
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Oxford University Press
2005
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