Dos caminos hacia la prosperidad : Cultura e instituciones en Europa y China entre los años 1000 y 2000

A thousand years ago, China was the most advanced and sophisticated civilization on the planet, while Europe remained fragmented, impoverished, and politically backward. Yet centuries later, it was Europe that led the Industrial Revolution, propelled the development of modern democracy, and transformed the global economy. What happened to cause these two societies to follow such different paths? In Two Roads to Prosperity, three of the world’s most prestigious economists and historians offer a groundbreaking and profoundly revealing interpretation of the so-called “Great Divergence.” Joel Mokyr, Avner Greif, and Guido Tabellini analyze how the distinct forms of social organization that emerged in Europe and China—family clans in the East and autonomous corporations in the West—shaped their political institutions, economies, and cultures over the past millennium.