Britain, China, and the Irrelevance of Stage Theories
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Keywords
industrial revolution; economic history; growth theory; productivity; Britain; China; non-European economies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N0 - Economic History - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2009-11-07 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2009-11-07 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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