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The big picture: Measuring the origins of the modern world (with Bishnupriya Gupta and Stephen Broadberry)
Was India once an affluent empire, later impoverished by British colonisation? Or was India never rich to begin with? More generally, what does historical data on wages and other economic indicators…
A view from the East: China, Japan, and the other paths to prosperity (with Debin Ma)
The tech gap between China and the West is closing fast. But why did the land that invented paper and gunpowder ever fall behind? Debin Ma is the world’s leading economic historian of East Asia. In…
Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain? (with Robert Allen)
Why was industrial modernity born in Europe and not, say, China? This is one of the most consequential questions about the origins of the modern world. Yet asking “why Europe” can mislead. The…
Why did so many inventions come from Europe? (with Joel Mokyr)
Several inventions mark the progress towards modernity - the Gutenberg printing press, the Galileo telescope, the Watt steam engine. But why was Europe the birthplace of so many of these? Joel Mokyr,…
Why the West? Colonies, fossil fuels, and lessons from China (with Kenneth Pomeranz)
Why did Western Europe become the richest region of the early modern world? Was the rise of the West powered by colonization, inventions, or something else entirely? And what happened to the medieval…
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