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.
