Li, Bozhong; Zanden, Jan Luiten van - In: The Journal of Economic History 72 (2012) 04, pp. 956-989
This article tests recent ideas about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe on the basis of a detailed comparison of structure and level of GDP in part of the Yangzi delta and the Netherlands in the 1820s. We find that Dutch GDP per capita was almost twice as high as...