The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and StagnationWhy, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible, change must be institutionalized. Taking a global view, Ringmar investigates the implications of his conclusion on issues facing the developing world today. |
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... religious beliefs, the absence or presence of natural or epidemiological disasters, a country's luck on the battlefield, and so on. In order to bring some order to such potentially endless lists of factors a comparison is often helpful ...
... religious beliefs, the absence or presence of natural or epidemiological disasters, a country's luck on the battlefield, and so on. In order to bring some order to such potentially endless lists of factors a comparison is often helpful ...
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... religions, technologies and arts; people were 'White and cultured,' and lived orderly lives in societies with highly developed institutions.3 And although Francis Bacon was quick to take credit on behalf of his contemporaries for the ...
... religions, technologies and arts; people were 'White and cultured,' and lived orderly lives in societies with highly developed institutions.3 And although Francis Bacon was quick to take credit on behalf of his contemporaries for the ...
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... religious authority. In Europe by contrast, power was always divided. In the Middle Ages there was a division between the Church and the Empire, and from about the sixteenth century an intense competition ensued between independent ...
... religious authority. In Europe by contrast, power was always divided. In the Middle Ages there was a division between the Church and the Empire, and from about the sixteenth century an intense competition ensued between independent ...
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... religious modernisation meant secularisation, and administrative modernisation came to be understood as the reliance on formal procedures and on the due process of law.22 Unfortunately it was never very clear how to reach some or all of ...
... religious modernisation meant secularisation, and administrative modernisation came to be understood as the reliance on formal procedures and on the due process of law.22 Unfortunately it was never very clear how to reach some or all of ...
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... without ever fully Westernising. Before long the East Asian success story forced the experts to reconsider their views. Perhaps, some scholars speculated, traditional cultural and religious norms actually encourage rather than retard.
... without ever fully Westernising. Before long the East Asian success story forced the experts to reconsider their views. Perhaps, some scholars speculated, traditional cultural and religious norms actually encourage rather than retard.
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