Ma, Debin

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Article
  • Ma, Debin, Zhao, Liuyan (2020). A silver transformation: Chinese monetary integration in times of political disintegration, 1898–1933. Economic History Review, 73(2), 513 - 539. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12939 picture_as_pdf
  • Ma, Debin (2019). Financial revolution in republican China during 1900–37: a survey and a new interpretation. Australian Economic History Review, 59(3), 242-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12173 picture_as_pdf
  • Ma, Debin, Rubin, Jared (2019). The paradox of power: principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes). Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(2), 277-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.002 description
  • Yuan, Weipeng, Macve, Richard, Ma, Debin (2017). The development of Chinese accountingand bookkeeping before 1850:insights from the Tŏng Tài Shēngbusiness account books (1798-1850). Accounting and Business Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2016.1263182
  • Mitchener, Kris James, Ma, Debin (2016). Introduction to the special issue: a new economic history of China. Explorations in Economic History, 63, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2016.12.003
  • Ma, Debin, Yuan, Weipeng (2016). Discovering economic history in footnotes: the story of the Tong Taisheng merchant archive (1790-1850). Modern China, 42(5), 483-504. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700415606872
  • Ma, Debin (2014). State capacity and great divergence, the case of Qing China (1644-1911). Eurasian Geography and Economics, 54(5-6), 484-499. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2014.907530 picture_as_pdf
  • Brandt, Loren, Ma, Debin, Rawski, Thomas G. (2014). From divergence to convergence: reevaluating the history behind China's economic boom. Journal of Economic Literature, 52(1), 45-123. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.52.1.45
  • Allen, Robert C., Bassino, Jean-Pascal, Ma, Debin, Moll-Murata, Christine, van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2011). Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India. Economic History Review, 64(s1), 8-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00515.x
  • Baten, Joerg, Ma, Debin, Morgan, Stephen, Wang, Qing (2010). Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in the 18-20th centuries: Evidences from real wages, age-heaping, and anthropometrics. Explorations in Economic History, 47(3), 347-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2009.09.003
  • Ma, Debin (2008). Economic growth in the Lower Yangzi region of China in 1911–1937: a quantitative and historical analysis. Journal of Economic History, 68(2), 355-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205070800034X
  • Ma, Debin, Fukao, Kyoji, Yuan, Tangjun (2007). Real GDP in pre-war East Asia: a 1934–36 benchmark purchasing power party comparison with the U.S. Review of Income and Wealth, 53(3), 503-537. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.2007.00243.x
  • Ma, Debin, Fukao, Kyoji, Yuan, Tangjuin (2006). International comparison in historical perspective: reconstructing the 1934-6 purchasing power parity of Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Explorations in Economic History, 43(2), 280-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2005.02.005
  • Ma, Debin (2005). Between cottage and factory: the evolution of Chinese and Japanese silk-reeling industries in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 10(2), 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860500071451
  • Bassino, Jean-Pascal, Ma, Debin (2005). Japanese unskilled wages in international perspective, 1741–1913. Research in Economic History, 23(Articl), 229-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0363-3268(05)23007-0
  • Ma, Debin (2004). Growth, institutions and knowledge: a review and reflection on the historiography of 18th-20th century China. Australian Economic History Review, 44(3), 259-277. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2004.00121.x
  • Ma, Debin (2004). Book review: China maritime customs and China trade statistics. Journal of Economic History, 64(1), 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050704302706
  • Ma, Debin (2004). Why Japan, not China, was the first to develop in East Asia: lessons from sericulture, 1850-1937. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(2), 369-394. https://doi.org/10.1086/380947
  • Ma, Debin (1996). Modern silk road: global raw silk market 1850-1930. Journal of Economic History, 56(2), 330-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700016478
    • Book
  • Ma, Debin, van Zanden, Jan Luiten (Eds.) (2011). Law and long-term economic change: an Eurasian perspective. Stanford University Press.
  • Ma, Debin (Ed.) (2005). Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900. Ashgate/Variorum.
    • Chapter
  • Ma, Debin (2013). Chinese money and monetary system, 1800–2000. In Caprio, G. (Ed.), Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure (pp. 57-64). Elsevier (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-397873-8.00022-0
  • Ma, Debin, van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2011). Law and economic change in traditional China: a 'legal origin' perspective on the great divergence. In Ma, D. & van Zanden, J. L. (Eds.), Law and Long Term Economic Change: a Eurasian Perspective . Stanford University Press.
  • Ma, Debin, van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2011). Law and economic change: an editorial introduction. In Ma, D. & van Zanden, J. L. (Eds.), Law and Long Term Economic Change: a Eurasian Perspective . Stanford University Press.
  • Ma, Debin (2010). The role of traditional Chinese state and the origin of modern East Asia. In Otsuka, K. & Kalirajan, K. (Eds.), Community, Market and State in Development (pp. 64-79). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gupta, Bishnupriya, Ma, Debin (2010). Europe in an Asian mirror: the great divergence. In Broadberry, S. & O'Rourke, K. H. (Eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe (pp. 264-285). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794834.013
  • Ma, Debin (2008). Silk. In Darity, W. A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences . Macmillan Reference USA.
  • Ma, Debin (2005). Introduction. In Textiles in the Pacific 1500-1900 . Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Ma, Debin (2003). Shanghai. In Mokyr, J. (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History . Oxford University Press.
  • Ma, Debin (2003). Shanghai [encyclopaedia entry]. In Mokyr, J. (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History . Oxford University Press.
  • Ma, Debin (2000). Europe, China and Japan: transfer of silk reeling technology in 1860-95. In Latham, A. & Kawakatsu, H. (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Dynamism, 1550-2000 (pp. 70-85). Routledge.
  • Ma, Debin (2000). Patterns of silk reeling technology transfer in China and Japan: 1860-1895. In Latham, A. J. H. & Kawakatsu, H. (Eds.), Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000 (pp. 70-85). Routledge.
  • Ma, Debin (1998). The great silk exchange: how the world was connected and developed. In O. Flynn, D., Frost, L. & Latham, A. (Eds.), Pacific Centuries : Pacific and Pacific Rim Economic History Since the 16th Century (pp. 38-69). Routledge.
    • Working paper
  • Ma, Debin, Rubin, Jared (2017). The paradox of power: understanding fiscal capacity in Imperial China and absolutist regimes. (Economic History working papers 261/2017). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ma, Debin (2016). The rise of a financial revolution in Republican China in 1900-1937: an institutional narrative. (Economic History working papers 235/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Yuan, Weipeng, Macve, Richard, Ma, Debin (2015). The development of Chinese accounting and bookkeeping before 1850: insights from the Tŏng Tài Shēng business account books (1798-1850). (Economic History working paper series 220/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ma, Debin, Yuan, Weipeng (2014). Discovering economic history in footnotes: the story of Tŏng Tàishēng merchant archive (1790-1850) and the historiography of modern China. (Economic History Working Paper Series 201/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Brandt, Loren, Ma, Debin, Rawski, Thomas G. (2013). From divergence to convergence: re-evaluating the history behind China’s economic boom. (Economic History Working Papers 175/13). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Brandt, Loren, Ma, Debin, Rawski, Thomas G. (2012). From divergence to convergence: re-evaluating the history behind China’s economic boom. (Economic History Working Papers 158/12). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ma, Debin (2012). Money and monetary system in China in the 19th-20th century: an overview. (Economic History Working Papers 159/12). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ma, Debin (2011). Rock, scissors, paper: the problem of incentives and information in traditional Chinese state and the origin of Great Divergence. (Economic history working papers 152/11). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ma, Debin (2009). Law and economic change in traditional China: a comparative perspective. (Economic History Working Papers 124/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Allen, Robert C., Bassino, Jean-Pascal, Ma, Debin, Moll-Murata, Christine, Zanden, Jan Luiten van (2009). Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan and India. (Economic History Working Papers 123/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Baten, Joerg, Ma, Debin, Morgan, Stephen, Wang, Qing (2009). Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in 18-20th century: evidences from real wage and anthropometrics. (Economic History Working Papers 122/09). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ma, Debin (2006). Shanghai-based industrialization in the early 20th century: a quantitative and institutional analysis. (Working Papers of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN) 18/06). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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