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JD's avatar

JM Bryant's article "The West and the Rest Revisited" is a dyspeptic view of the Great Divergence debate that brings up the points you made above. I recommend it!

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Ben Kodres-O’Brien's avatar

Have you encountered the recent synthesis of the last two decades of new data pertaining to the debate from Stephen Broadberry? https://voxeu.org/article/accounting-great-divergence-recent-findings-historical-national-accounting

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