# Kenneth Pomeranz

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Why the West? Colonies, fossil fuels, and lessons from China (with Kenneth Pomeranz)

Why did Western Europe become the richest region of the early modern world? Was the rise of the West powered by colonization, inventions, or something else entirely? And what happened to the medieval might of China and India? The term “great divergence” is increasingly used by historians who are bo…

Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen in Britain? ~ Robert Allen (Great Divergence #3)

Why was industrial modernity born in Europe and not, say, China? This is one of the most consequential questions about the origins of the modern world. Yet asking “why Europe” can mislead. The Industrial Revolution was not a European event. It was a British event. So why was the steam engine invent…

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Britain? (with Robert Allen)

Why was industrial modernity born in Europe and not, say, China? This is one of the most consequential questions about the origins of the modern world. Yet asking “why Europe” can mislead. The Industrial Revolution was not a European event. It was a British event. So why was the steam engine invent…

A View From the East: China, Japan, and the Other Paths to Prosperity ~ Debin Ma (Great Divergence #4)

The tech gap between China and the West is closing fast. But why did the land that invented paper and gunpowder ever fall behind? Debin Ma is the world’s leading economic historian of East Asia. In this fourth episode of our Great Divergence series, he approaches the making of the modern world fro…

A view from the East: China, Japan, and the other paths to prosperity (with Debin Ma)

The tech gap between China and the West is closing fast. But why did the land that invented paper and gunpowder ever fall behind? Debin Ma is the world’s leading economic historian of East Asia. In this fourth episode of our Great Divergence series, he approaches the making of the modern world fro…

The Big Picture: Measuring the Origins of the Modern World ~ Bishnupriya Gupta & Stephen Broadberry (Great Divergence #5)

Was India once an affluent empire, later impoverished by British colonisation? Or was India never rich to begin with? More generally, what does historical data on wages and other economic indicators tell us about the broader story of the making of the modern world – a world with great affluence, b…

The big picture: Measuring the origins of the modern world (with Bishnupriya Gupta and Stephen Broadberry)

Was India once an affluent empire, later impoverished by British colonisation? Or was India never rich to begin with? More generally, what does historical data on wages and other economic indicators tell us about the broader story of the making of the modern world – a world with great affluence, b…

Excerpt: Myth of the Month 26: The Industrial Revolution -- pt. 2: Spinning the National Yarn

For patrons only for 1 year: We trace how the notion of the “industrial revolution” – originally a foreign, Continental idea rooted in German dialectical history – entered into British political discourse and then into sacred national mythology, enshrined by the tourism industry and by Thatcherite…

NN#5: The Rise of the Asian Century

The American Century is over and the Asian Century is rising rapidly. But much of the Western policy establishment still hasn’t noticed. Show notes   Episode 238 – Transition in Europe 2024, Energy Transition Show, December 4, 2024.     Daan Walter, Sam Butler-Sloss, Antoine Issac, Kingsmill Bond,…

When Did Globalisation Really Begin? ~ Valerie Hansen

We can decide to stay home, but even then, the wider world is always close to our skin. From global trade to ideas that travel across continents, the wider world is always woven into our modern life. Since when has this been the case? There is a modern story about globalisation — a story about tele…