A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gregory ClarkSeries:Princeton Economic History of the Western World #27Publish date:2009-01-18Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691141282ISBN-10:691141282UPC:9780691141282Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:World, Economic History, EconomicsSize:8.70 x 5.70 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SC6KY7G9XK
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
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...
Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #27
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691141282ISBN-10:691141282UPC:9780691141282Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:World, Economic History, EconomicsSize:8.70 x 5.70 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3404Product ID:SC6KY7G9XK
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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