What is a striking similarity between china and western europe during the fifteenth century?

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Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?

The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 2006)

, pp. 3-22 (20 pages)

Published By: American Economic Association

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30033648

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