TY - BOOK AU - Greif, Avner AU - Mokyr, Joel AU - Tabellini, Guido TI - Two paths to prosperity: Culture and institutions in Europe and China, 1000-2000 SN - 9780691265940 PY - 2025/// CY - New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press N2 - In the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the twentieth century and was always ruled by autocracies. Two Paths to Prosperity traces the emergence of two very different social organizations in premodern China and Europe—the clan and the corporation—showing how they were key factors in the economic and political divergence of these two great civilizations ER -