This article offers a critical review of recent literature on Chinese legal tradition and argues that some subtle but fundamental differences between the Western and Chinese legal traditions are highly relevant to our explanation of the economic divergence in the modern era. By elucidating the...

In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving awayfrom the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behindconcentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power’spaper focuses on the British situation. As Britain comes to terms with theimplications of...