The early modern great divergence: Wages, prices and economic development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800

Economic History Review

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-31

  Broadberry, Stephen ^a   Gupta, Bishnupriya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC HISTORY; PRICE DYNAMICS; WAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33646581389     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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