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The Laws and Economics of Confucianism - Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England (Hardcover)
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The Laws and Economics of Confucianism - Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
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Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional
economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and
Property in Preindustrial China and England offers a novel argument
as to why Chinese and English preindustrial economic development
went down different paths. The dominance of Neo-Confucian social
hierarchies in Late Imperial and Republican China, under which
advanced age and generational seniority were the primary
determinants of sociopolitical status, allowed many poor but senior
individuals to possess status and political authority highly
disproportionate to their wealth. In comparison, landed wealth was
a fairly strict prerequisite for high status and authority in the
far more 'individualist' society of early modern England,
essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions
of prestige and leadership. Zhang argues that this social
difference had major consequences for property institutions and
agricultural production.
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