Great Divergence of the 18th Century?

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution UC Riverside. 2018. Vol. 9. No. 2. P. 108–123.

Korotayev A., Zinkina J., Zlodeev D.

The article suggests that the Great Divergence of the 19th century between “the West” and “the East” was preceded by the Great Divergence in the 18th century between the Global North and the Global South. This may be attributed to a new, much higher level of state efficiency in the Global North. The eastern and western regions of the Global North frequently used different methods to make their state apparatuses more efficient, but achieved strikingly similar results during the 18th century. The Great Divergence of the 19th century, remarkably, occurred within the Global North.

Keywords: 18 век, Great Divergence, Великая Дивергенция, 18th century, глобальный Север, глобальный Юг, the Global North, Global South

Publication based on the results of: New World Order Architecture in the Middle and Near East (2018)