It Market Size?
How About State Capacity?
Maybe It Was Skilled Mechanical Workers?
An Innovative Economy
High Wages and Induced Innovation
An Enlightened Economy
Chapter Summary
9 The Rise of the Modern Economy
The Fruits of Industrialization
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Demographic Transition
The Uneven Diffusion of Modern Economic Growth
How the US Became Rich
The Soviet Detour
Chapter Summary
10 Industrialization and the World It Created
Delayed Catch-up: The Shadow of Colonization (and Other Factors)
How Japan Became Rich
How the East Asian Tigers Became Rich
How China Is Becoming Rich
Chapter Summary
11 The World Is Rich
10 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Most populous cities in Western Eurasia, 800 CE
2 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Black Death mortality by country
3 Chapter 6Table 6.1 English crop yields, 18th century
4 Chapter 7Table 7.1 British borrowing and interest rates, 1693–1739
5 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Most populous English cities excluding London (with populations of at least 10,0…
6 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Major inventions of the Second Industrial Revolution
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Countries that were richer in 2018 (annual per capita income) than the US in 190…Figure 1.2 Countries that were richer in 2018 (annual per capita income) than Great Britain…Figure 1.3 People living in extreme poverty, 1820–2015Figure 1.4 Year that per capita GDP exceeded $10 per day (2018 USD)Figure 1.5 Yearly per capita income for selected regions, 1 CE–presentFigure 1.6 US GDP per capita, 1720–2018 (2018 USD)Figure 1.7 Ruggedness and income in African and non-African countriesFigure 1.8 The reversal of fortunes within formerly colonized nations, 1500–1995
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Coastlines of African countriesFigure 2.2 Africa’s “malaria belt”Figure 2.3 Verticality and horizontality of the continentsFigure 2.4 Technology adoption levels in 1500 (% of frontier technologies adopted)Figure 2.5 Temperature deviations across Europe, 1100–1800Figure 2.6 The Roman road networkFigure 2.7 The increase in turnpikes in England and Wales: 1680–1830Figure 2.8 Changes in US market access, 1870–90Figure 2.9 Location of cities in England and France in the Roman and medieval periodsFigure 2.10 The price of energy in the early 1700s
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Rule of law vs. per capita GDPFigure 3.2 Night lights on the Korean PeninsulaFigure 3.3 Rule of law index, 2017Figure 3.4 The first(?) formal legal system: the Code of HammurabiFigure 3.5 Legal origins throughout the worldFigure 3.6 Polity score, 2017Figure 3.7 Democracy score, 2017Figure 3.8 Parliamentary activity in Europe, 1100–1800Figure 3.9 Tax revenues per capita for six European powers, 1500–1900Figure 3.10 Interest rates in city-states and territorial states, 1200–1800
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Subcultures of the USFigure 4.2 Percentage Protestant, Catholic, and Muslim vs. per capita GDPFigure 4.3 Percentage of Protestants vs. school enrollment rate in early 19th-century Pruss…Figure 4.4 Ruler duration in Western Europe and the Islamic worldFigure 4.5 The north–south Italy divide: cousin marriage, trust, and judicial efficiencyFigure 4.6 The relationship between trust and per capita GDPFigure 4.7 Traditional plow use, female labor force participation, and female firm ownershi…
5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Life expectancy around the world, 2015Figure 5.2 The Malthusian modelFigure 5.3 The Malthusian model: illustrating the effects of reducing the birth rateFigure 5.4 Black Death mortality rates (%) in 1347–52Figure 5.5 Population and wages in England, 1209–1750Figure 5.6 Fertility and female age of marriage in England, 1590s–1830s
6 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Countries colonized by Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, …Figure 6.2 Number of slaves in the transatlantic slave trade by carrierFigure 6.3 Number of slaves taken in the slave tradesFigure 6.4 The relationship between slaves exported and economic indicatorsFigure 6.5 Africa’s ethnic boundaries prior to colonizationFigure 6.6 Settler mortality, institutions, and long-run developmentFigure 6.7 Agricultural investment in IndiaFigure 6.8 Ethnic partitioning and the “scramble for Africa”Figure 6.9 The Indian railroad network, 1930Figure 6.10 Modern literacy and proximity to Jesuit missions in Argentina, Brazil, and Parag…
7 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 The steppe and state formation in China and EuropeFigure 7.2 Real per capita GDP, 1450–1700, select countries
8 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 GDP, GDP per capita, and population in England/Britain, 1270–1870 (1700 = 100)Figure 8.2 England and its largest cities, 1520–1801Figure 8.3 The spinning jennyFigure 8.4 Arkwright’s water frameFigure 8.5 Crompton’s spinning muleFigure 8.6 Schematic of the Newcomen steam engineFigure 8.7
