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Between government and market: Building blocks of a new economic history of China's industrial development during the Ming dynasty (ca. 1368–1644)

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  • Zipeng Zhang, 2025. "Between government and market: Building blocks of a new economic history of China's industrial development during the Ming dynasty (ca. 1368–1644)," Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(1), pages 166-168, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:apechr:v:65:y:2025:i:1:p:166-168
    DOI: 10.1111/aehr.70001
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    1. Debin Ma, 2012. "Political Institutions and Long-run Economic Trajectory: Some Lessons from Two Millennia of Chinese Civilization," International Economic Association Series, in: Masahiko Aoki & Timur Kuran & Gérard Roland (ed.), Institutions and Comparative Economic Development, chapter 4, pages 78-98, Palgrave Macmillan.
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    3. David S. Landes, 2006. "Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 20(2), pages 3-22, Spring.
    4. Ma, Debin, 2012. "Political Institution and Long Run Economic Trajectory: Some Lessons from Two Millennia of Chinese Civilization," CEPR Discussion Papers 8791, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
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