Living Standards in the Past : New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe.
Robert C. Allen
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (495 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Standards of Living in Eighteenth-Century China: Regional Differences, Temporal Trends, and Incomplete Evidence -- 2 Farm Labour Productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 -- 3 Wages, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Growth in Japan, 1727-1894 -- 4 Agriculture, Labour, and the Standard of Living in Eighteenth-Century India -- 5 Real Wages in Europe and Asia: A First Look at the Long-Term Patterns -- 6 Sketching the Rise of Real Inequality in Early Modern Europe -- 7 What Happened to the Standard of Living Before the Industrial Revolution? New Evidence from the Western Part of the Netherlands -- 8 Economic Growth, Human Capital Formation and Consumption in Western Europe Before 1800 -- 9 Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe -- 10 The Burden of Grandeur: Physical and Economic Well-Being of the Russian Population in the Eighteenth Century -- 11 Maternal Mortality as an Indicator of the Standard of Living in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slavonia -- 12 The Standard of Living in Denmark in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 13 Short-term Demographic Changes in Relation to Economic Fluctuations: The Case of Tuscany During the Pre-Transitional Period -- 14 New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Long-Term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-Term Economic Stress -- 15 Individuals and Communities Facing Economic Stress: A Comparison of Two Rural Areas in Nineteenth-Century Belgium -- 16 Living Standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: Evidence from Demographic Outcomes.. - 17 Demographic Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.. - When did Europe pull ahead of Asia in terms of living standards? A number of well-known scholars compare economic and demographic indicators of well-being in the pre-industrial period. The emerging picture is not one of great differences, but of considerable similarities in standard of living between Europe and Asia before the Industrial Revolution.
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| ISBN | 9780191535734
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