A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691121352
Publisher : Princeton University Press; First Edition (August 13, 2007)
Hardcover : 432 pages
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.