Greif, Avner creator Mokyr, Joel Co-author Tabellini, Guido Co-author text New Jersey Princeton University Press 2025 monographic eng

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viii, 533p. Includes bibliographical reference and index In 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. X9:75.50j41 R5 9780691265940 RTL 260406 20260409143810.0