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How Well Did Facts Travel to Support Protracted Debate on the History of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China?
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - 2017
This paper tackles the issue of how reliable the currently circulated 'facts' really are regarding the 'Great Divergence' debate. Our findings indicate strongly that 'facts' of premodern China are often of low quality and fragmented. Consequently, the application of these 'facts' can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255073
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How Well Did Facts Travel to Support Protracted Debate on the History of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China?
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - 2017
This paper tackles the issue of how reliable the currently circulated 'facts' really are regarding the 'Great Divergence' debate. Our findings indicate strongly that 'facts' of premodern China are often of low quality and fragmented. Consequently, the application of these 'facts' can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255080
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Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 - c.1840
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401713
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Quantifying the quantifiable : a reply to Jan-Luiten van Zanden and Devin Ma
O'Brien, Patrick; Deng, Kent - In: World economics : a journal of current economic … 18 (2017) 3, pp. 215-223
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754761
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How well did facts travel to support protracted debate on the history of the great divergence between Western Europe and imperial China?
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737956
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Establishing statistical foundations of a chronology for the great divergence : a survey and critique of the primary sources for the construction of relative wage levels for Ming-Qing China
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - In: The economic history review : a journal of economic and … 69 (2016) 4, pp. 1057-1082
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700167
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China's GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to communist times
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583550
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China's GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to communist times
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - In: World economics : a journal of current economic … 17 (2016) 2, pp. 79-123
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553359
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Why Maddison was wrong : the great divergence between imperial China and the West
Deng, Kent; O'Brien, Patrick - In: World economics : a journal of current economic … 18 (2017) 2, pp. 21-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730777