Sivramkrishna, Sashi - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54
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...