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: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre … of early modern England, essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions of prestige and leadership …Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Dian' sales in Qing and Republican China; 2. Mortgages in early modern England; 3 …
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The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
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Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- The importance, role and function of the state: The cases of Great Britain and China -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- The persistence of the traditional view: Britain as an...
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intensive forms of industry. Hamilton`s analyses of price and wage data for 16th- and 17th-century Spain, France, and England …; and that early-modern England had experienced the greatest degree of such profit inflation. Such a contrast in their … national economic experiences helps to explain, in Hamiltonś view, why Spain subsequently declined, while England became the …
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