Living standards in the past : new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe /
edited by Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, and Martin Dribe.
- xxii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction / Standards of living in eighteenth-century China : regional differences, temporal trends, and incomplete evidence / Farm labour productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 / Wages, inequality, and pre-industrial growth in Japan, 1727-1894 / Agriculture, labour, and the standard of living in eighteenth-century India / Real wages in Europe and Asia : a first look at the long-term patterns / Sketching the rise of real inequality in early modern Europe / What happened to the standard of living before the industrial revolution? : new evidence from the western part of the Netherlands / Economic growth, human capital formation and consumption in Western Europe before 1800 / Health and nutrition in the pre-industrial era : insights from a millennium of average heights in Northern Europe / The burden of grandeur : physical and economic well-being of the Russian population in the eighteenth century / Maternal mortality as an indicator of the standard of living in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Slavonia / The standard of living in Denmark in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Short-term demographic changes in relation to economic fluctuations : the case of Tuscany during the pre-transitional period / New evidence on the standard of living in Sweden during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : long-term development of the demographic response to short-term economic stress / Individuals and communities facing economic stress : a comparison of two rural areas in nineteenth-century Belgium / Living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909 : evidence from demographic outcomes / Demographic responses to short-term economic stress in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural Japan : evidence from two northeastern villages / Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Kenneth Pomeranz -- Bozhong Li -- Osamu Saito -- Prasannan Parthasarathi -- Robert C. Allen -- Philip T. Hoffman, David S. Jacks, Patricia A. Levin and Peter H. Lindert -- Jan Luiten van Zanden -- Jaime Reis -- Richard H. Steckel -- Boris Mironov -- Eugene A. Hammel and Aaron Gullickson -- Hans Chr. Johansen -- Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin and Giovanna Gonano -- Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe -- Michel Oris, Muriel Neven and George Alter -- James Z. Lee and Cameron D. Campbell -- Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
"How did the standard of living in Europe and Asia compare in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? This book proposes an answer by considering evidence of three sorts. The first is economic, focusing on income, food production, wages, and prices. The second is demographic, comparing heights, life expectancy, and other demographic indicators. The third combines the economic and demographic by investigating the demographic vulnerability to short-term economic stress." "These analyses show a highly complex and diverse pattern of the standard of living in the pre-industrial period. The general picture emerging is not one of great divergence between East and West, but one of considerable similarities."--BOOK JACKET.
0199280681 9780199280681
2004026575
Cost and standard of living--History--Asia Cost and standard of living--History--Europe