A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world

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A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world

Title remainder

a brief economic history of the world

Statement of responsibility

Gregory Clark

Creator

• Clark, Gregory, 1957-

Subject

• Economic history

Language

eng

Summary

"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." "A sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Princeton economic history of the Western world

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

330.9

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

• The Princeton economic history of the western world.
• The Princeton economic history of the Western world