2013年12月19日，美国西北大学博士、新加坡国立大学（National University of Singapore）孙传炜做客山东大学第62期高级经济学系列讲座并作了题为“Unified China and Divided Europe”的学术报告。

Abstract:

This paper proposes a theory of the origins and consequences of political centralisation and fragmentation. We argue that a greater threat of external invasion from the steppe led to political centralization in China while Europe faced a wider variety of external threats and remained politically fragmented. Our model allows us to explore the consequences of political centralization and fragmentation. Political centralisation in China led to less interstate competition in Europe. But it also meant that China was fragile in the event of an external invasion. We develop a unifyed growth framework to show that the greater volatility in growth during the Malthusian era in China can help explain the divergence in economic development that had opened up between China and Europe at the onset of the Industrial Revolution.

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