The Cambridge economic history of China
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The Cambridge economic history of China
Cambridge University Press, 2022
- v. 1, To 1800
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Economic history of China
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 710-714) and index
XISBN(9781107146068) from set ISBN
Description and Table of Contents
Description
China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. But China's prominence in the global economy is hardly new. Since 500 BCE, a dynamic market economy and the establishment of an enduring imperial state fostered precocious economic growth. Yet Chinese society and government featured distinctive institutions that generated unique patterns of economic development. The six chapters of Part I of this volume trace the forms of livelihood, organization of production and exchange, the role of the state in economic development, the evolution of market institutions, and the emergence of trans-Eurasian trade from antiquity to 1000 CE. Part II, in twelve thematic chapters, spans the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800 and surveys diverse fields of economic history, including environment, demography, rural and urban development, factor markets, law, money, finance, philosophy, political economy, foreign trade, human capital, and living standards.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Volume I Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn
- Part I. Before 1000: 1. The economy of late pre-imperial China: archaeological perspectives Lothar von Falkenhausen
- 2. Agriculture and its environmental impact Motoko Hara
- 3. State and economy: production, extraction, and distribution Richard von Glahn
- 4. Markets, money, and merchants Yohei Kakinuma
- 5. Economic philosophy and political economy Richard von Glahn
- 6. Silk Road trade and foreign economic influences Xinru Liu
- Interlude. The Tang-Song transition in Chinese economic history Richard von Glahn
- Part II. 1000 to 1800: 7. Ecological change and resource constraints David A. Bello
- 8. Population change Shuji Cao
- 9. Public finance Christian Lamouroux and Richard von Glahn
- 10. Political economy Helen Dunstan
- 11. Law and the market economy Billy K. L. So and Sufumi So
- 12. Property rights and factor markets Mio Kishimoto
- 13. The rural economy Kenneth Pomeranz
- 14. Cities and the urban economy Harriet Zurndorfer
- 15. The monetary system Akinobu Kuroda
- 16. Merchants and commercial networks Joseph P. McDermott
- 17. Foreign trade Angela Schottenhammer
- 18. Production, consumption, and living standards Zhiwu Chen and Kaixiang Peng.
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