The economic takeoffs in China and (now increasingly) India are among the most economically consequential things to ever happen, affect a third of humanity, and there are bizarrely few top econ papers about it?
@oliverwkim
My former classmate had a really nice paper on this: I am not sure if it ever got published though and I cant find the paper online anymore, only this summary.
@oliverwkim
Fascinating. In fact, some Chinese historians share a similar view with you.
@LiuZhongjing
once argued that the rapid increase in China's agriculture output was due to 1) the end of the Cultural Revolution and 2) the introduction of chemical fertilizer from Western countries.