Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History (Economics, Cognition, and Society) - Softcover

Jones, Eric Lionel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472067281 ISBN 13: 9780472067282

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2000

Synopsis

This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, it 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. The second offers a new explanation in which tendencies for growth were omnipresent but were usually--though not always--suppressed. 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. Eric Jones has written a substantial new introduction for this edition, which includes discussions of early evidence of growth episodes and the relation of these points to the Industrial Revolution, and the relevance of the East Asian "miracle" to his thesis.

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"A multi-tiered and sophisticated hypothesis ...the thrust of the argument, the range of conceptual interest and empirical reference, and the exceptional learning remind us of the value of well-informed economic historians departing from specialist byways in order to tackle really important questions."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472067281
• ISBN 13: 9780472067282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 296