ISBN:
9781845423353
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 225 p)
,
ill., map
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
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Available in another form
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations
DDC:
950/.072
Keywords:
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
;
Institutioneller Wettbewerb
;
Innovation
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Theorie
;
Asien
;
Competition History
;
Technological innovations History
;
Electronic books
;
Asia Economic policy
;
Asia Politics and government
;
Bibliografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
China
;
Indien
;
Japan
;
Naher Osten
;
Politik
;
Wettbewerb
;
Dezentralisation
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Innovation
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the beneficial effects of inter state competition have been confined to European history. By contrast, China, India and the Islamic Middle East are regarded as inherently imperial and overcentralised. However, these civilisations have not always been unified politically. In their history, there have been long spells of decentralised rule or inter state competition. The same is true for Japan. If the Hume-Kant hypothesis is correct, it should also apply to those periods. This volume analyses the qualitative and quantitative evidence
Abstract:
1. Introduction and overview -- 2. The political pattern of historical creativity : a theoretical case -- 3. Creative clusters, political fragmentation and cultural heterogeneity : an investigative journey through civilizations East and West -- 4. Lessons from the history of Imperial China -- 5. Advantages of centralized and decentralized rule in Japan -- 6. India -- 7. Islamic statecraft and the Middle East's delayed modernization
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.4337/9781845423353
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