LEADER 04839nam 22006374a 450 001 9910465747403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611925215 010 $a1-4356-9972-6 010 $a0-19-153573-7 010 $a1-281-92521-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000293939 035 $a(EBL)728752 035 $a(OCoLC)735625519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000088060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11119482 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071177 035 $a(PQKB)10129466 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073809 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC728752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL728752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273324 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL192521 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000293939 100 $a20041109d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLiving standards in the past$b[electronic resource] $enew perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe /$fedited by Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, and Martin Dribe 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (495 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-928068-1 311 $a0-19-160246-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aStandards of living in eighteenth century China: regional differences, temporal trends, and incomplete evidence / Kenneth Pomeranz -- Farm labour productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 / Li Bozhong -- Wages, inequality, and pre-industrial growth in Japan, 1727-1894 / Osamu Saito -- Agriculture, labour, and the standard of living in eighteenth-century India / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- Real wages in Europe and Asia: a first look at the long-term patterns / Robert C. Allen -- Sketching the rise of real inequality in early modern Europe / Philip T. Hoffman, David S. Jacks, Patricia A. Levin, and Peter H. Lindert -- What happened to the standard of living before the industrial revolution? new evidence from the western part of the Netherlands / Jan Luiten van Zanden -- Economic growth, human capital formation and consumption in Western Europe before 1800 / Jaime Reis -- Health and nutrition in the pre-industrial era: insights from a millennium of average heights in Northern Europe / Richard H. Steckel -- The burden of grandeur: physical and economic well-being of the Russian population in the eighteenth century / Boris Mironov -- Maternal mortality as an indicator of the standard of living in eighteenth and nineteenth century Slavonia / Eugene A. Hammel and Aaron Gullickson -- The standard of living in Denmark in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Hans Christian Johansen -- Short-term demographic changes in relation to economic fluctuations: the case of Tuscany during the pre-transitional period / Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, and Giovanna Gonano -- New evidence on the standard of living in Sweden during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: long-term development of the demographic response to short-term economic stress / Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Individuals and communities facing economic stress: a comparison of two rural areas in nineteenth century Belgium / Michel Oris, Muriel Neven, and George Alter -- Living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: evidence from demographic outcomes / James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell -- Demographic responses to short-term economic stress in eighteenth and nineteenth century rural Japan: evidence from two northeastern villages / Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu. 330 $aWhy did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic growth before China, India or Japan? This is one of the most fundamental questions in Economic History and one that has provoked intense debate. The main concern of this book is to determine when the gap in living standards between the East and the West emerged. The established view, dating back to Adam Smith, is that the gap emerged long before the Industrial Revolution, perhaps thousands of years ago. While this view has been called into question - and many of the explanations for it greatly undermined - the issue demands much mo 606 $aCost and standard of living$zAsia$xHistory 606 $aCost and standard of living$zEurope$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCost and standard of living$xHistory. 615 0$aCost and standard of living$xHistory. 676 $a339.4/2/0950903 701 $aAllen$b Robert C.$f1947-$0328811 701 $aBengtsson$b Tommy$0246430 701 $aDribe$b Martin$0994264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465747403321 996 $aLiving standards in the past$92277031 997 $aUNINA