--Kirkus Reviews, "Comprehensive, fair-minded, and lucid ... Noah makes a convincing and passionate case for why rising inequality harms a working democracy." The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It @inproceedings{Noah2012TheGD, title={The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It}, author={Timothy Noah}, year={2012} } ‘The great divergence’ considers gross domestic product (GDP) and standards in living to show the prosperity gap between rich and poor countries. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. 2. europe—economic conditions—19th century. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Noah's book is a rebuttal, a potent argument that the 'worst thing we could do t. There's a problem loading this menu right now. This is the one. Many European writers have viewed China as wealthier Part One: Introducing the Great Divergence. You are currently offline. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of “The Great Divergence” by Kenneth Pomeranz. "An important, exemplary, and finally passionate work of long-form journalism"--Hendrik Hertzberg, "An excellent series"--Nicholas Kristof, "New York Times, ""A must-read"--Jesse Singal, "Boston Globe", "Characteristically thoughtful and well-written"--David Von Drehle, "Time, "Praise for "The Great Divergence""So you're busy and stressed andhave time to read just one book on America's faultline crisis of widening inequality. Buy it now and read it. Indeed, in the past decade the main spin-off of the Great Divergence Debate has been living standards and real wages in global history (e.g. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. "The Long Divergence is an excellent book that should be of great appeal to scholars interested in the Middle East and its history, economic historians interested in the general question of why some regions failed to modernize, and social scientists interested in the historical and institutional roots of comparative underdevelopment."