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Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History - Hardcover

Jones, E. L.

 
9780198283003: Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198283008 ISBN 13: 9780198283003
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1988

Synopsis

Growth Recurring is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks. One replaces industrial revolution or great discontinuity as the source of change and challenges the reader to accept early periods and non-western societies as vital to understanding the growth process. It shows that growth occurred independently in Sung China and Japan as well as in Europe. The second framework offers a new explanation in which tendencies for growth were omnipresent but were usually - though not always - suppressed. The `obstacles to growth' are reviewed and those of general significance identified. Finally, the erosion of these negative factors is discussed, explaining the rise of a world economy in which growth has recurred and East Asia takes a prominent place.

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Review

"He has supplemented his expertise in European economic history by reading widely in Asian history, ancient and modern....Jones's style is both delightful and lapidary. He strikes innumerable sparks with challenging assertions on almost every page....His new book is as thought-provoking as The Economic Miracle--not least where it contradicts its predecessor."--American Historical Review "Bold and stimulating."--Journal of Asian Studies "He has supplemented his expertise in European economic history by reading widely in Asian history, ancient and modern....Jones's style is both delightful and lapidary. He strikes innumerable sparks with challenging assertions on almost every page....His new book is as thought-provoking as The Economic Miracle--not least where it contradicts its predecessor."--American Historical Review "Bold and stimulating."--Journal of Asian Studies "He has supplemented his expertise in European economic history by reading widely in Asian history, ancient and modern....Jones's style is both delightful and lapidary. He strikes innumerable sparks with challenging assertions on almost every page....His new book is as thought-provoking as The Economic Miracle--not least where it contradicts its predecessor."--American Historical Review "Bold and stimulating."--Journal of Asian Studies "He has supplemented his expertise in European economic history by reading widely in Asian history, ancient and modern....Jones's style is both delightful and lapidary. He strikes innumerable sparks with challenging assertions on almost every page....His new book is as thought-provoking as The Economic Miracle--not least where it contradicts its predecessor."--American Historical Review "Bold and stimulating."--Journal of Asian Studies

Synopsis

Growth Recurring is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks. One replaces industrial revolution or great discontinuity as the source of change and challenges the reader to accept early periods and non-western societies as vital to understanding the growth process. It shows that growth occurred independently in Sung China and Japan as well as in Europe. The second framework offers a new explanation in which tendencies for growth were omnipresent but were usually - though not always - suppressed. The 'obstacles to growth' are reviewed and those of general significance identified. Finally, the erosion of these negative factors is discussed, explaining the rise of a world economy in which growth has recurred and East Asia takes a prominent place.

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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198283008
ISBN 13 
9780198283003
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
258