Recent developments in the literature on market structure have allowed the generation of a few key testable predictions from the theory of strategic behaviour. The seminal model considers one simple but general relationship, that between market structure and market size, focusing on the...

Ch 1. The way we live now - and the way we once lived -- Ch. 2. Debates and theories -- Ch. 3. Song China and the Ming restoration - a case study -- Ch. 4. The military revolution and the world it made -- Ch. 5. The European divergence -- Ch. 6. The scientific revolution and the shaping of the...