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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Grinin, Leonid Efimovič (1958-....)
Titre(s) : Great Divergence and Great Convergence [Texte électronique] : A Global Perspective
Titre d'ensemble : Great divergence and great convergence / Grinin, Leonid.
Édition : Online-Ausg
Publication : Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015
Description matérielle : Online-Ressource (1 online resource (261 p.))
Collection : International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
EBL-Schweitzer
Note(s) : Description based upon print version of record
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction. And Yet the Twain Meet:
Great Convergence Brings the East Closer to the West; Why This Book Has Been Written,
or the Great Divergence and Great Convergence as Two Phases of a Single Process; How
Did the Perception by the Europeans of the Non-European World Change? From Marco Polo
to the California School; Great Convergence in the Past and in the Future; Chapter
2: Great Divergence and the Rise of the West; A General Analysis of the Development
of Asia and Europe ; Some Preconditions of the Great Divergence in the Early Modern
PeriodSome Comparisons Between the West and the East: Technological Peculiarities;
Some Comparisons Between Europe and the East: Structural Features of Economic Systems;
Some Comparisons Between the West and the East: Socioeconomic Peculiarities; Territorial
and Demographic Proportions; Catching Up Divergence of the Early Modern Period; Industrial
Revolution and Its Three Phases; Why Does It Make Sense to Consider the Industrial
Revolution as a Long-Term Process?; The Initial Phase of the Industrial Revolution
; Middle Phase of the Industrial RevolutionSome Preconditions and Precursors of the
Started Industrial Breakthrough; Final Phase of the Industrial Revolution; Why Britain?;
Beginning and Apogee of the Great Divergence and the Emergence of the Capitalist World-System;
Modernization of the West; Subjugation of the East and the Start of Its Transformation;
Chapter 3: Great Convergence and the Rise of the Rest; Long-Term Divergence-Convergence
Trends as Regards the GDP; On the Dynamics of the West's Share in the World Population
; On the Dynamics of the Gap Between the West and the Rest as Regards the Per Capita
GDP Statistical Addendum to This Chapter: On the Structure of the Present-day Convergence;
Possible Explanations of the Trends; Possible Global Implications of the Convergence-Divergence
Pattern; Chapter 4: The Great Convergence and Globalization: How Former Colonies Became
the World Economic Locomotives; Western Technologies and the Emergence of Prerequisites
for a Shift Toward Convergence in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
; West and East After the Second World War: Technologies and Politics The Beginning
of the Turn to Convergence: Causes and Manifestations; Fundamental Reasons; Political
and Ideological Reasons and Factors; Aspects of International and Regional Organizations;
Economic Reasons and Factors; The Emergence Within States of a Self-Sustaining System
of Motivation for Modernization; Some Consequences of Changes; On Discussions About
the Possibility of Convergence: Why Did Economists Overlook It?; Globalization Becomes
the Major Cause of Convergence ; How the Globalization Have Weakened the Core and
Strengthened the Periphery ; This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on
hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins
by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution
that led European nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical context
over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the
recent economic and technological expansion taking place in Third World nations and
characterized by narrowing inequity among nations. They are seen here as two phases
of an inevitable global process, ce
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Korotayev, Andrey. Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Économie politique
Population
Démographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
304.6 (23e éd.) = Population
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319177809
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44679498b
Notice n° :
FRBNF44679498
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Table des matières : Introduction. And yet the Twain Meet: Great Convergence brings the East closer to
the West ; Great Divergence and the Rise of the West ; Great Convergence and the
Rise of the Rest ; The Great Convergence and Globalization: How the Former Colo-nies
Became the World Economic Locomotives ; Afterword. The Great Convergence and Possible
Increase in Global Instability, or the World without an Absolute Leader.
