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标题：Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development ∗
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作者：Areendam Chanda Louis Putterman
期刊名称：Economics Working Papers / Brown University
出版年度：2004
卷号：2004
出版社：Brown University
摘要：Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic history, and that the “reversal of fortune” associated with European overseas expansion from about 1500 to 1960 was an exception. We demonstrate that the colonial era reversal was in the process of being reversed in recent decades, and that this second reversal is in line with longer-term trends dating back to the first agricultural revolution.
关键词：economic growth, economic development, economic history