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Title: A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world / Gregory Clark.
The Princeton economic history of the western world
Main Entry: Clark, Gregory, 1957- author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Publication Date: c2007.
Publication Place: Princeton :
ISBN: 9780691121352 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691121354 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject: Economic history.
Histoire économique.
Wereldgeschiedenis.
Culturele verschillen.
Sociaal-economische aspecten.
Industriele revolutie.
Series: The Princeton economic history of the western world
Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world -- Malthusian trap : economic life to 1800 -- logic of the Malthusian economy -- Living standards -- Fertility -- Life expectancy -- Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest -- Technological advance -- Institutions and growth -- emergence of modern man -- Industrial Revolution -- Modern growth : the wealth of nations -- puzzle of the industrial revolution -- industrial revolution in England -- Why England? Why not China, Japan or India? -- Social consequences -- great divergence -- World growth since 1800 -- proximate sources of divergence -- Why isn't the whole world developed? -- Conclusion : strange new world -- Technical appendix -- References -- Index -- Figure credits.

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