A Farewell to Alms : : A Brief Economic History of the World / / Gregory Clark.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 25 halftones. 78 line illus. 65 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Sixteen-Page Economic History of the World
- PART I The Malthusian Trap: Economic Life to 1800
- 2. The Logic of the Malthusian Economy
- 3. Living Standards
- 4. Fertility
- 5. Life Expectancy
- 6. Malthus and Darwin: Survival of the Richest
- 7. Technological Advance
- 8. Institutions and Growth
- 9. The Emergence of Modern Man
- PART II The Industrial Revolution
- 10. Modern Growth: The Wealth of Nations
- 11. The Puzzle of the Industrial Revolution
- 12. The Industrial Revolution in England
- 13. Why England? Why Not China, India, or Japan?
- 14. Social Consequences
- PART III The Great Divergence
- 15. World Growth since 1800
- 16. The Proximate Sources of Divergence
- 17. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?
- 18. Conclusion: Strange New World
- Technical Appendix
- References
- Index
- Figure Credits