Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
估算了欧洲殖民前孟加拉的收入及可能的增长范围，发现其平均收入远低于同时期西欧，且18世纪平均收入是增长还是下降缺乏足够证据。
This article contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modern world by estimating the income and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that in contemporary Western Europe, and (b) there is insufficient basis to infer either growth or decline in average income in the eighteenth century.