Deng, Kent 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9795-3646
(2025)
An ‘accidental revolution’ with experimental currencies in Song China, 960-1279 AD.
In: Magee, Gary B. and Deng, Kent, (eds.)
The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones.
Palgrave Studies in Economic History.
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, CH.
ISBN 9783031902475
(In Press)
Abstract
This chapter investigates reasons why China suddenly broke off from its foregone tradition of agrarian dominance and opted for manufacturing and commerce. This new choice led to an array of changes geographically, demographically, commercially, and fiscally. It also opened China up internationally. But China did not plan these changes ex ante. They all happened accidentally through trial and error.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/book/9783031902475 |
| Additional Information: | © 2025 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | N - Economic History > N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations > N15 - Asia including Middle East N - Economic History > N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries > N55 - Asia including Middle East |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2025 08:18 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2025 12:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129189 |
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