经济史与经济增长讲义1.pdf

The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A Comparative and Historical Analysis Lecture 1 James A. Robinson Harvard September 2, 2009 James A. Robinson (Harvard) The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A ComparativeSeptemberand Historical2, 2009 Analysis1 / 19 Themes and Issues The focus of this course is in trying to understand the pattern of world development in the long-run, starting with the Neolithic Revolution around 10,000 years ago. The most dramatic fact is the relative evolution of income per-capita vividly portrayed in the data by Maddison shown on the next slide. When I was a (British, and worse British Empire) schoolboy we used to just call this the industrial revolution but now we call it the Great Divergence. This terminology reáects a signiÖcant shift in emphasis away from explaining why the industrial revolution happened to why the technologies and methods of organization it generated di§used so unevenly across the world. James A. Robinson (Harvard) The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth: A ComparativeSeptemberand Historical2, 2009 Analysis2 / 19 1002 e c n e m 3791 p o e o d r g g u n r E i e