• The high-level equilibrium trap is a concept developed by environmental historian Mark Elvin to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial...
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    in medieval Europe and their decrease in the Middle-East. The high-level equilibrium trap theory argues that China did not undergo an indigenous industrial...
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    greater focus on economic causes.[citation needed] Mark Elvin's high level equilibrium trap is one well-known example of this line of thought. It argues...
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  • Resource curse (redirect from Resource trap)
    Exploitation colonialism Freight equalization policy in India High-level equilibrium trap Passive income Rent seeking Rentier capitalism Rentier state...
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  • and at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Elvin is noted for his high-level equilibrium trap theory to explain why an industrial revolution happened in Europe...
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  • explanations and have focused more on economic causes. Mark Elvin's high level equilibrium trap is one well-known example of this line of thought, as well as...
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    of Elvin's high level equilibrium trap theory to explain why there was no indigenous Industrial Revolution in China despite its high levels of wealth and...
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  • able to accept any information from their inferiors. The High-Level Equilibrium Trap. High population, although sometimes it can be a cheap source of...
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  • was in a high-level equilibrium trap in which the non-industrial methods were efficient enough to prevent use of industrial methods with high initial capital...
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  • trapping coefficients B n , B p {\displaystyle B_{n},B_{p}} and two de-trapping coefficients G n , G p {\displaystyle G_{n},G_{p}} . In equilibrium,...
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    science and technology, but that China was then caught in a high level equilibrium trap. Others claim that the Song dynasty economic revolution brought...
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  • economics, the middle income trap is a situation where a country has developed until GDP per capita has reached a middle level of income, but the country...
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  • In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is the most commonly used solution concept for non-cooperative games. A Nash equilibrium is a situation where no player...
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  • A liquidity trap is a situation, described in Keynesian economics, in which, "after the rate of interest has fallen to a certain level, liquidity preference...
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    expression for the equilibrium temperature of these shadows. Additionally, the temperatures (and therefore the stability) of cold-traps can be remotely sensed...
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  • threshold of the liquidity trap. Finally, the economy moves to the new equilibrium, at full employment. Pigou concluded that an equilibrium with employment below...
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    the worker has high ability. In a separating equilibrium, the wage will be 0 for the signal level the Low type chooses and 10 for the high type's signal...
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  • response equilibrium (QRE) is a solution concept in game theory. First introduced by Richard McKelvey and Thomas Palfrey, it provides an equilibrium notion...
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    does not trap ions in the z ^ {\displaystyle {\widehat {z}}} direction. When multiple ions are at the saddle point and the system is at equilibrium, the ions...
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    Mercury nano-trap water filtration is a method of decontaminating water of mercury. Mercury is one of the most notorious metal pollutants present in food...
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  • in the trap. The trap will eventually reach capacity when the level of the water in it reaches the level of the side-arm. At this point, the trap must be...
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  • will result in an overall general equilibrium. General equilibrium theory contrasts with the theory of partial equilibrium, which analyzes a specific part...
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    IS–LM model (category General equilibrium theory)
    raises the equilibrium interest rate (from i1 to i2) and national income (from Y1 to Y2), as shown in the graph above. The equilibrium level of national...
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  • a new equilibrium between prices and quantities. Initially, because of the "stickiness" of prices of goods, the new short run equilibrium level will first...
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    also called a centipede game. The unique subgame perfect equilibrium (and every Nash equilibrium) of these games results in the first player taking the...
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  • their non-equilibrium charge state. After the pulse, when the voltage returns to its steady-state value, the defects start to emit trapped carriers due...
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    against the gradient force in the axial direction of the trap, resulting in an equilibrium position that is displaced slightly downstream of the intensity...
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    response is the initial rise in global temperature when CO2 levels double, and the equilibrium climate sensitivity is the larger long-term temperature increase...
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    physics, a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is an apparatus which uses laser cooling and a spatially varying magnetic field to create a trap which can produce samples...
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  • planet is assumed to be in radiative equilibrium, then the runaway greenhouse state is calculated as the equilibrium state at which water cannot exist in...
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