01166nam a2200181   450000500170000000800410001702000180005803700120007604000130008808400240010110000170012524500850014226000500022730000630027752005840034070000270092470000330095120260409143810.0260406b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780691265940  cTextual  aRTLcRTL  qRTLaX9:75.50j41 R5  aGreif, Avner  aTwo paths to prosperity: Culture and institutions in Europe and China, 1000-2000  aNew JerseybPrinceton University Press c2025  aviii, 533p. bIncludes bibliographical reference and index  aIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the twentieth century and was always ruled by autocracies. Two Paths to Prosperity traces the emergence of two very different social organizations in premodern China and Europe—the clan and the corporation—showing how they were key factors in the economic and political divergence of these two great civilizations.  aMokyr, JoeleCo-author  aTabellini, Guido eCo-author