Alice H. Amsden, The Rise of The Rest. Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 (extract).
Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age, Berkley, Los Angeles, US and London, 1998 (extract).
David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor, New York, US, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999 (470 pages).
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton, New Jersey, US and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2000 (296 pages).
Peer Vries, "Via Peking back to Manchester: Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China", Studies in Overseas History / 4, Leiden University, 2003 (63 pages).
Utdragene og tilleggslitteratur utdeles på seminaret. (The extracts and the additional literature will be handed out at the seminar.)