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Pomeranz’s Great Divergence and Mokyr’s Culture of Growth

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Review Pomeranz’s Great Divergence and Mokyr’s Culture of Growth.

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The Great Divergence by Kenneth Pomeranz and the Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr are influential books explaining the economic divergence between Europe and Asia. The importance of these books rests with the fact that modern economic growth and cross-country differences are historically unprecedented. Before the beginning of the eighteenth century, countries had not experienced sustained growth, but this changed after the Industrial Revolution, although to different extents. Therefore, the two texts attempt to answer the question; “what explains the differences in economic development after the industrial revolution?”

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