and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a benchmark from which to consider public goods provision in Prussia …. Such an approach allows us to mediate comparisons made directly between China and Europe and to avoid taking England as the …

Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern … comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry …" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603-1868), and by …