Contents
Introduction to Real World History vs. Eurocentric Social Theory
Holistic Methodology and Objectives
Smith, Marx, and Weber
Contemporary Eurocentrism and Its Critics
Economic Historians
Limitations of Recent Social Theory
Outline of a Global Economic Perspective
Anticipating and Confronting Resistance and Obstacles
An Introduction to the World Economy
Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Antecedents
The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences
Some Neglected Features in the World Economy
World Division of Labor and Balances of Trade
Mapping the Global Economy
The Americas
Africa
Europe
West Asia
North India
Gujarat and Malabar
Coromandel
Bengal
Archipellago and Islands
Mainland
Population, Production, and Trade
China in the World Economy in
Central Asia
Russia and the Baltics
Summary of a Sinocentric World Economy
Money Went Around the World and Made the World Go Round
World Money: Its Production and Exchange
Micro- and Macro-Attractions in the Global Casino
Dealing and Playing in the Global Casino
The Numbers Game
How Did the Winners Use Their Money
Inflation or Production in the Quantity Theory of Money
Money Expanded the Frontiers of Settlement and Production
The Global Economy: Comparisons and Relations
Quantities: Population, Production, Productivity, Income, and Trade
Population, Production, and Income
Productivity and Competitiveness
World Trade 1400-1600
Qualities: Science and Technology
Eurocentrism Regarding Science and Technology in Asia
Guns
Ships
Printing
Textiles
Metallurgy, Coal, and Power
Transport
World Technological Development
Mechanisms: Economic and Financial Institutions
Comparing and Relating Asian and European Institutions
Global Institutional Relations
Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory
Simultaneity Is No Coincidence
Doing Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory
Demographic/Structural Analysis
A “Seventeenth-Century Crisis”?
The 1640 Silver Crises
Kondratieff Analysis
The 1762-1790 Kondratieff “B” Phase: Crisis and Recessions
A More Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory?
Why Did the West Win (Temporarily)
Is There a Long-Cycle Roller Coaster?
The Decline of the East Preceded the Rise of the West
The Decline in India
The Decline Elsewhere in Asia
Climbing Up on Asian Shoulders
Supply and Demand for Technological Change
Supplies and Sources of Capital
A Global Economic Demographic Explanation
A Demographic Economic Model
A High-Level Equilibrium Trap?
The Evidence: 1500-1750
The 1750 Inflection
Challenging and Reformulating the Explanation
The Resulting Transformations in India, China, Europe, and the World
In India
In China
In Western Europe
The Rest of the World
Past Conclusions and Future Implications
Historiographic Conclusions and Theoretical Implications
Historiographic Conclusions: The Eurocentric
Emperor Has No Clothes
The Asiatic Mode of Production
European Exceptionalism
A European World-System or a Global Economy?
1500: Continuity or Break?
Capitalism?
Hegemony?
The Rise of the West and the Industrial Revolution
Empty Categories and Procrustean Beds
Theoretical Implications: Through the Global Looking Glass
Holism vs. Partialism
Commonality/Similarity vs. Specificity/Differenees
Continuity vs. Discontinuities
Horizontal Integration vs. Vertical Separation
Cycles vs. Linearity?
Agency vs. Structure
Europe in the World Economic Nutshell
Jihad vs. McWorld in the Anarchy of the Clash of Civilizations?