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Living Standards in the Past - New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Living Standards in the Past - New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Why did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic
growth before China, India or Japan? This is one of the most
fundamental questions in Economic History and one that has provoked
intense debate. The main concern of this book is to determine when
the gap in living standards between the East and the West emerged.
The established view, dating back to Adam Smith, is that the gap
emerged long before the Industrial Revolution, perhaps thousands of
years ago. While this view has been called into question - and many
of the explanations for it greatly undermined - the issue demands
much more empirical research than has yet been undertaken. How did
the standard of living in Europe and Asia compare in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? The present book proposes an
answer by considering evidence of three sorts. The first is
economic, focusing on income, food production, wages, and prices.
The second is demographic, comparing heights, life expectancy and
other demographic indicators. The third combines the economic and
demographic by investigating the demographic vulnerability to
short-term economic stress. The contributions show the highly
complex and diverse pattern of the standard of living in the
pre-industrial period. The general picture emerging is not one of a
great divergence between East and West, but instead one of
considerable similarities. These similarities not only pertain to
economic aspects of standard of living but also to demography and
the sensitivity to economic fluctuations. In addition to these
similarities, there were also pronounced regional differences
within the East and within the West - regional differences that in
many cases were larger than the average differences between Europe
and Asia. This clearly highlights the importance of analysing
several dimensions of the standard of living, as well as the danger
of neglecting regional, social, and household specific differences
when assessing the level of well-being in the past.
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