Abstract: In Pomeranz's Great Divergence Pomeranz seeks to minimize the economic disparities between Western Europe/ England and China/Asia around 1800. In scope of reference and degree of quantification, it surpasses comparative explanations of the rise of the West. The author believes that by the mid-1700s most of Western Europe had started to move away from a Malthusian world in which a limit was set to demographic growth by the inability of agricultural output to expand and keep up with demand. The wood-based energy situation in England was undoubted...
(read more)
Topics: 
Social science