Re: [PEN-L] Celebratory Eurocentrism

[jeff sommers]

More strangely Landes suggested China's success since Deng in manufacturing assembly was attributable to the comparative advantage of using chop sticks :-)   --Dr. Jeff Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED]    (m) +1 414 324 8184   --Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga)   Visiting Professor --Silk Roads Project, Co-Director --Center for European & Transition Studies,   University of Latvia, Fellow --Institute for Globalization Studies, Moscow, Fellow   Date:    Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:56:41 -0400 From:    Michael Nuwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Celebratory Eurocentrism   Have you seen AG Frank's review of Landes?   http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/agfrank/landes.html   Michael Perelman wrote: > David Landes recently published an article explaining why the West > prospered more than China.  You can read the whole thing and scroll > down.  Landes finds the usual -- that China lacked the proper market > arrangements that makes capitalism work.  But then he goes further, > suggesting that the monasteries (hardly what one might think of as a > free market) were a major factor in European success.