OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession ….7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases …

compares the actual performance of markets in Europe and China, two regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the … findings suggest that relative levels of market function in China and Europe were similar prior to the Industrial Revolution …

argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China’s tendency toward political unification and Europe’s protracted … find that topography alone is sufficient, but not necessary, to explain polycentrism in Europe and unification in China …. Differences in land productivity, in particular the existence of a core region of high land productivity in northern China, also …

We discuss monetary thought in ancient China from the perspective of Western monetary theory. It sets out the structure … of economic activity in the various dynasties of ancient China and emphasizes the differences in monetary structure from … Europe (and later North America). Imperial China was a politically integrated structure with regional segmentation of …