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Rich Europe, Poor Asia: How Wealth Inequality, Demography, and Crop Risks Explain the Poverty of Pre-industrial East Asia, 1300-1800.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rich Europe, Poor Asia: How Wealth Inequality, Demography, and Crop Risks Explain the Poverty of Pre-industrial East Asia, 1300-1800./
Author:	Kumon, Yuzuru.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	213 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-04A.
Subject:	Economic history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13895624
ISBN:	9781088300886

Rich Europe, Poor Asia: How Wealth Inequality, Demography, and Crop Risks Explain the Poverty of Pre-industrial East Asia, 1300-1800.
Kumon, Yuzuru.

Rich Europe, Poor Asia: How Wealth Inequality, Demography, and Crop Risks Explain the Poverty of Pre-industrial East Asia, 1300-1800. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 213 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Why was Japan in particular, and East Asia in general, so poor compared to Northwest Europe in the centuries preceding the Industrial Revolution? Despite the importance recently attached to high wages in explaining the Industrial Revolution (Allen, 2009), there has been little investigation of why pre-industrial living standards varied so greatly across societies. Elaborating the Malthusian framework of income determination and using considerable amounts of new data on Japan 1600-1867, I show two important factors that explain much of Japanese poverty. The first was much greater wealth inequality in Europe, which paradoxically is shown in the Malthusian framework to increase average incomes. I also show these inequality differences ultimately trace to differences in family structure between northwest Europe and Japan. Second, greater fluctuations of net grain output in European agriculture compared to Japan would drive up average incomes in Europe according to predictions from the Malthusian framework. Together these two sources can explain 47% of the gap in average male day wages between Japan and England pre 1800. Since it has been recently claimed that Japan saw significant growth 1600-1867 (Bassino, 2019), I also show with new data that Japanese farm wages 1600-1867 were consistently lower than those of England, and stagnated across these years. I also show that at the household level 1600-1867 there is the expected positive Malthusian connection between income and population growth which affirms the Malthusian approach to Japanese pre-industrial history.

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