The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century. This book … offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific, technological and economic factors which enabled Asia to make such a … predictions for how Asia might face up to the new challenges of the next millennium …

"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe … industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan … Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than …