Review of Averting the Great Divergence by Peter Vries: Peer Vries, Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868–1937, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019, 310 pp.

Review of Averting the Great Divergence by Peter Vries: Peer Vries, Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019, 310 pp In so doing the study provides an overview of Japanese economic development from the Meiji period to World War II which is both accessible to non-specialists of Japan and will appeal to economic historians more broadly. Peer Vries is a prolific global economic historian who has written several influential works on the emergence of modern economic growth, most notably on Britain and China. [Extracted from the article]