Deng, Kent and O'Brien, Patrick (2017) How well did facts travel to support protracted debate on the history of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China? Economic History Working Papers (257/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK.
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Abstract
With the ongoing debate of the Great Divergence since 2000, a wide range of works have been published to compare economic performance of Western Europe with that of China. The upsurge in the divergence scholarship has however been dogged by an issue of reliability and compatibility of ‘facts’. A reason is that non-Chinese speaking academics tend to accept stylised facts from Chinese sources too readily without checking, which makes, more often than not, the Chinese part of the story a liability rather than an asset. We here challenge that well-circulated notion that ‘any number is better than no number’: No number does not make any number right.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/home.aspx |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | N - Economic History > N0 - General > N01 - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods N - Economic History > N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations > N10 - General, International, or Comparative |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2017 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 23:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69923 |
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