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- Title
GLOBAL DISPARITIES SINCE 1800: TRENDS AND REGIONAL PATTERNS.
- Authors
Alam, M. Shahid
- Abstract
The article examines the evidence on the relative economic standing of different regions of the world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and refutes the claims that Western Europe had an economic lead during these periods. According to investigation, Eurocentric claims are established on the premise of per capita income estimates, which plagued by conceptual problems, make demands on historical data that are generally unavailable, and the use of questionable assumptions to reconstruct early per capita income. Nevertheless, examination on these conjectural estimates of per capita income does not support claims of economic superiority by Western Europe.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; ECONOMIC conditions in Western Europe; ECONOMIC conditions in Europe; 19TH century economic conditions in Europe; ECONOMIC development; ECONOMIC history; ECONOMIC activity; ECONOMIC structure; ECONOMIC trends; ECONOMIC indicators; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
1076-156X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5195/JWSR.2006.381