Fareed Zarakia in The Post-American World talks about the difference in 19th century productivity in China and Europe:
Throwing more manpower at a problem is not the path to innovation. The historian Philip Huang makes a fascinating comparison between the farmers of the Yangtze Delta and those of England, the richest regions of China and Europe [...]
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