Pomeranz says that the benefits from england’s enormous coal deposits combined with the virtually unlimited farmland of north a...  Read More

Pomeranz says that the benefits from england’s enormous coal deposits combined with the virtually unlimited farmland of north america solved the ecological bottlenecks that had bedeviled the advanced economies of the eighteenth century and triggered the mass industrialization of the nineteenth  Read Less

All three societies western europe china and japan were faced with populations that had moreorless come in line with the carryi...  Read More

All three societies western europe china and japan were faced with populations that had moreorless come in line with the carrying capacities of their lands based on the level of technology of the day  Read Less

In particular im disappointed with the cryptic way that it dismisses the relevance of the ideas in helmut schoecks book envy

In particular im disappointed with the cryptic way that it dismisses the relevance of the ideas in helmut schoecks book envy  Read Less

This is not to say that i agree with the book

This is not to say that i agree with the book  Read Less

Thus europe did not have any type of consumer society advantage visàvis china and japan that would give her a head start in the...  Read More

Thus europe did not have any type of consumer society advantage visàvis china and japan that would give her a head start in the competition to rise  Read Less

This in turn is seen as a function of dynasticnascent state competition within europe a factor absent in china

This in turn is seen as a function of dynasticnascent state competition within europe a factor absent in china  Read Less

Other factors such as financial institutions and internal competition fade in importance before the simple math of carrying capacity

Other factors such as financial institutions and internal competition fade in importance before the simple math of carrying capacity  Read Less