"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe … Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than … conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science or …

well as its casuistical methods. Here is not the place to relate the history of the work or its reception, but it seemed …