ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age

Contents\r......Page 5
Preface\r......Page 10
Holistic Methodology and Objectives......Page 25
Globalism, not Eurocentrism......Page 32
SMITH, MARX, AND WEBER......Page 36
CONTEMPORARY EUROCENTRISM\rAND ITS CRITICS......Page 44
ECONOMIC HISTORIANS......Page 48
LIMITATIONS OF RECENT SOCIAL THEORY......Page 50
Outline of a Global Economic Perspective......Page 58
Anticipating and Confronting Resistance\rand Obstacles......Page 62
An Introduction to the World Economy......Page 76
THIRTEENTH- AND FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ANTECEDENTS......Page 80
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE\rAND ITS CONSEQUENCES......Page 83
SOME NEGLECTED FEATURES\rIN THE WORLD ECONOMY......Page 85
World Division of Labor and Balances\rof Trade......Page 87
MAPPING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY......Page 88
THE AMERICAS......Page 94
AFRICA......Page 95
EUROPE......Page 98
WEST ASIA......Page 99
The Ottomans......Page 102
Safavid Persia......Page 106
INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN......Page 108
Coromandel......Page 114
Bengal......Page 115
SOUTHEAST ASIA......Page 116
Archipellago and Islands......Page 121
Mainland......Page 125
JAPAN......Page 128
CHINA......Page 132
Population Production and Trade......Page 133
China in the World Economy......Page 135
CENTRAL ASIA......Page 141
RUSSIA AND THE BALTICS......Page 147
SUMMARY OF A SINOCENTRIC WORLD\rECONOMY......Page 150
World Money: Its Production and Exchange......Page 155
MICRO- AND MACRO-ATTRACTIONS\rIN THE GLOBAL CASINO......Page 157
DEALING AND PLAYING IN THE GLOBAL\rCASINO......Page 163
THE NUMBERS GAME......Page 166
Silver......Page 167
Gold......Page 173
Credit......Page 174
How Did the Winners Use Their Money?......Page 175
THE HOARDING THESIS......Page 176
INFLATION OR PRODUCTION IN THE\rQUANTITY THEORY OF MONEY......Page 177
In India......Page 182
In China......Page 184
Elsewhere in Asia......Page 186
4.  The Global Economy:\rComparisons and Relations......Page 189
Quantities : Population, Production,\rProductivity, Income, and Trade......Page 190
POPULATION, PRODUCTION, AND INCOME......Page 191
PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITIVENESS......Page 198
WORLD TRADE 1400-1800......Page 202
EUROCENTRISM REGARDING SCIENCE AND\rTECHNOLOGY IN ASIA......Page 209
Guns......Page 219
Ships......Page 221
Textiles......Page 224
Metallurgy, Coal, and Power......Page 226
Transport......Page 227
WORLD TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 228
Mechanisms: Economic and Financial\rInstitutions......Page 229
COMPARING AND RELATING ASIAN AND\rEUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS......Page 232
GLOBAL INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS......Page 233
In India......Page 238
In China......Page 242
5. Horizontally Integrative\rMacrohistory......Page 250
Simultaneity Is No Coincidence......Page 252
DEMOGRAPHIC/STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS......Page 254
A \"SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS\"?......Page 255
THE 1640 SILVER CRISES......Page 261
KONDRATIEFF ANALYSIS......Page 272
THE 1762-1790 KONDRATIEFF \"B\" PHASE:\rCRISIS AND RECESSIONS......Page 275
A MORE HORIZONTALLY INTEGRATIVE\rMACROHISTORY?......Page 279
6. Why Did the West Win\r(Temporarily)?......Page 282
Is There a Long-Cycle Roller Coaster?......Page 284
The Decline of the East Preceded the Rise of\rthe West......Page 288
THE DECLINE IN INDIA......Page 291
THE DECLINE ELSEWHERE IN ASIA......Page 295
How Did the West Rise?......Page 300
CLIMBING UP ON ASIAN SHOULDERS......Page 301
SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR TECHNOLOGICAL\rCHANGE......Page 307
SUPPLIES AND SOURCES OF CAPITAL......Page 318
A Global Economic Demographic\rExplanation......Page 321
A DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMIC MODEL......Page 322
A HIGH-LEVEL EQUILIBRIUM TRAP ?......Page 324
THE EVIDENCE: 1500-1750......Page 332
THE I750 INFLECTION......Page 333
CHALLENGING AND REFORMULATING THE\rEXPLANATION......Page 336
In India......Page 338
In China......Page 339
In Western Europe......Page 340
The Rest of the World......Page 341
PAST CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE\rIMPLICATIONS......Page 342
7. Historiographic Conclusions\rand Theoretical Implications......Page 345
THE ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION......Page 346
EUROPEAN EXCEPTIONALISM......Page 348
A EUROPEAN WORLD-SYSTEM OR A GLOBAL\rECONOMY?......Page 351
1500: CONTINUITY OR BREAK?......Page 352
CAPITALISM?......Page 354
HEGEMONY?......Page 356
THE RISE OF THE WEST AND THE\rINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION......Page 357
EMPTY CATEGORIES\rAND PROCRUSTEAN BEDS......Page 358
Theoretical Implications: Through the Global\rLooking Glass......Page 363
HOLISM VS. PARTIALISM......Page 364
COMMONALITY/SIMILARITY VS. SPECIFICITY/DIFFERENCES......Page 365
CONTINUITY VS. DISCONTINUITIES......Page 366
HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION VS. VERTICAL\rSEPARATION......Page 368
CYCLES VS. LINEARITY......Page 371
AGENCY VS. STRUCTURE......Page 375
EUROPE IN A WORLD ECONOMIC NUTSHELL......Page 376
JIHAD VS. McWORLD IN THE ANARCHY OF\rTHE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?......Page 381
References......Page 384
Index......Page 411