The laws and economics of Confucianism : kinship and property in pre-industrial China and England / Taisu Zhang.
"Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre-industrial economic development went down different paths. The domi...
Uniform Title: | Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
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Physical Description: | x, 308 pages ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Dian sales in Qing and Republican China
- Mortgages in early modern England
- Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (theories)
- Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (empirics)
- Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history
- Property institutions and agricultural capitalism.