Tag: China isolationism

Before The Great Divergence: The modernity of China at the onset of the industrial revolution

Jan 26, 2011

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by

mwkruse

in China, Economic Development, Economics, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Technology

Vox: Before the Great Divergence: The modernity of China at the onset of the industrial revolution China has been one of the world’s most dynamic economies in recent decades, but how did it fall so far behind? This column argues that the industrial revolution occurred in Europe rather than China because European entrepreneurs were eager…