Accounting for the great divergence: Recent findings from historical national accounting
As a result of recent work on historical national accounting, it is now possible to establish more firmly the timing of the Great Divergence of living standards between Europe and Asia in the eighteenth century. There was a European Little Divergence as Britain and the Netherlands overtook Italy and...
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University of Oxford
2021
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