1st Edition
The Premodern Chinese Economy Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility
By Gang Deng
Copyright 1999
436 Pages
by
Routledge
436 Pages
by
Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
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Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. These factors include: * resource endowments * socio-economic structure * property rights * state and bureaucracy * ideology and values * geo-political environment * internal... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Main Factors in the Chinese Socio-economic System 3. Trinary Structure 4. Disequilibrium, Cataclysm and Recovery 5. External Pressure and Shock: the Reinforcement of the Pattern 6. Conclusion: Dead Lock in Economic Development Appendices
Biography
Gang Deng
'An impressive work. Economic historians who study China must read it; historians interested in comparative economic development should read it.' - Economic History Review, David W. Clayton
