The Impact of New World Food Crops on the Diet and Economy of China and India, 1600-1900
Author(s)
Mazumdar, Sucheta
Abstract
This essay begins with a discussion of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Max Weber, whose theories of human nature and socio-economic change, respectively, stand at the center of an understanding of liberal theories of power distribution and modernization. The Hobbes-Weber paradigm is then compared to the Marxist one, which is taken to be basic to the Chinese approach to political economy, and which includes Lenin’s theory of the party.
