Péril chinois et déclin de l’Europe. Analyses économiques en France au tournant du xx e siècle

Marion Gaspard

Revue économique, 2015, vol. 66, issue 5, 933-966

Abstract: At the end of the 19th century, in the context of a general concern about the alleged « decay of white races », the Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895) opens the perspective of an industrial revolution in China. The paper studies how economic concepts and theories are used to evaluate the possibility of a « Chinese Peril » for Europe, but also how the debate, while progressing both from conceptual and a methodological viewpoints, relies on racialist representations to estimate the relative value of key economic indicators (wage, productivity, initiative, speeds of capital accumulation and technological transfers, institutional efficiency). Classification JEL : A13, B13, B14, B15

JEL-codes: A13 B13 B14 B15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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