The article explores the problem of boudaries between economics and history. The richeness that derives by crossing the … boundaries is explained with examples from the history of contemporary Italy. …

This paper explores how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) can turn the challenges posed by the current global …

less efficient. However, so far this question is difficult to analyse for China since we lack information on one of the … the provinces of China between 1922 and 2010. Using our new dataset, together with physical capital and per capita GDP …, whereas until the reform period China was largely driven by capital accumulation, afterwards general technical development got …

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … Mediterranean Sea, lessons will be drawn from the "longue durée" of history, as analysed by French historian Fernand Braudel and …

have shown that China led the West in 1500, and maybe as late as 1750, then fell dramatically behind. It was the …