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History Matters II: The Origins of Development Underdevelopment & the Global Gap. POL2 204 Fall 2011. The Global. State 1. Process. State 2. Developed. Development. Traditional Undeveloped Pre-Industrial. Industrial Revolution Colonialism Decolonization. The Global Gap. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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History Matters II:The Origins of Development
Underdevelopment &
the Global GapPOL2 204Fall 2011
The Global
TraditionalUndevelopedPre-Industrial
Developed
Underdeveloped
Develop
me
nt
Underdeve lopment
State1 Process State2
The Great Divergence
The Global Gap
Industrial RevolutionColonialismDecolonization
The Three Main Historical “Paths” in the Processes of Development & UnderdevelopmentNote: Years are approximate beginning and ending points
Prof. William A. Joseph / Wellesley College
The Industrial Revolution
Gregory Clark, A Farewell To Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (2007)
c. 1770
"The Day the World Took Off, Part 2. Wheeling and Dealing"
Angus Maddison, "The Contours of World Development," ch. 1 in The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (2001).
THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/World_GDP_Capita_1-2003_A.D.png
Zheng He 郑和 (1371-1434)
Zheng He 郑和 (1371-1435)
*Adapted from http://law.jrank.org/pages/9534/Proximate-Cause.html#ixzz0TM7O00Vb
**law.jrank.org/pages/7483/Immediate-Cause.html
Three levels of causation
immediate cause**The final act in a series of provocations leading to a particular result
or event, directly producing such result without the intervention of any further provocation.
proximate cause*An act from which [an outcome] results as a . . . direct,
uninterrupted consequence and without which [it would] not have occurred. . .It is not necessarily the closest cause in time or space nor the first event that sets in motion a sequence of events leading to an outcome.
ultimate causeThe most fundamental explanation for an outcome; the deepest
root of what is being explained; the true origins of something.
ULTIMATE CAUSE
PROXIMATE CAUSES
IMMEDIATE CAUSES
THE GLOBAL GAP
SUSTAINING FACTORS e.g. governance; culture;
global economy & institutionsThe Global Gap
IMMEDIATE FACTORS
From Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, 87.
Colonialism, Industrial Revolution
