Важнейшими из работ по этим темам являются Douglass C. Northand and Robert P. Thomas. The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. New York, 1973; Eric L. Jones. The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. New York, 1981; Kenneth Pomeranz. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World. Princeton, NJ, 2000.
