A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world / Gregory Clark.

By: Clark, Gregory, 1957- [author.]Contributor(s): Jstor - EBAMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Princeton economic history of the Western worldPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007Description: 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400827817 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Economic history | History | Economics -- history | Histoire économique | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History | Economic history | History | Industrielle Revolution | Kulturelle Entwicklung | Industrialisierung | Räumliche Disparität | Weltwirtschaft | Wereldgeschiedenis | Culturele verschillen | Sociaal-economische aspecten | Industriële revolutie | Wirtschaft -- Geschichte | Weltwirtschaft | Industrielle Revolution | Histoire économique -- 1750-1918 | Histoire économique -- 20e siècle | Révolution industrielle -- Origines | Développement économique -- Origines | Geschichte 1000 v. Chr.-2000 n. ChrGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Farewell to alms.DDC classification: 330.9 LOC classification: HC21 .C63 2007ebOnline resources: e-book Full-text access
Contents:
Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world -- The logic of the Malthusian economy -- Material living standards -- Fertility -- Life expectancy -- Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest -- Technological advance -- Institu
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-407) and index.

Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world -- The logic of the Malthusian economy -- Material living standards -- Fertility -- Life expectancy -- Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest -- Technological advance -- Institu

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

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