Living standards in the past [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe / / edited by Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, and Martin Dribe

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (495 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.4/2/0950903
• Soggetto topico: Cost and standard of living - Asia - History; Cost and standard of living - Europe - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AllenRobert C. <1947-> BengtssonTommy DribeMartin
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Standards 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Living standards in the past
• ISBN: 9786611925215; 1-4356-9972-6; 0-19-153573-7; 1-281-92521-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465747403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II