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Gregory Clark

Farewell to Alms

A Brief Economic History of the World

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Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4008-2781-7
  • EAN: 9781400827817
  • Produktnummer: 13958982
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor


Gregory Clark is chair of the economics department at the University of California, Davis. He has written widely about economic history.

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