POLI 338 Chapter Notes -Physiocracy, Environmental Determinism, Technological Determinism
5 Apr 2013
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Deng a critical survey of recent research in chinese economic. Regional studies have developed to deal with size of china. However, deng points out certain forces that played a unifying/centralizing role across regions, such as a national market, a single government, in-migration, and. This is coupled with a declining prominence and frequency of empire-wide studies. It was not until early 190s that ecological factors such s natural disasters were explored for their economic effects. Comparisons between china and west is problematic, given the large differences between the two. As such, these projects assume unilinear development based on a hegelian-marxist model. Others have attempted to avoid this by asking why china did not repeat its own achievements under the song. Yet this still posits socio-economic hegemony under the song and socio-economic inferiority afterwards. From a darwinian perspective, a linear development is not a given. Whether the economy was ever truly a candidate to become the first industrialized society become irrelevant.
