A farewell to alms
Subtitle: a brief economic history of the world
By: Gregory Clark.
Series: The Princeton economic history of the Western world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780691121352
Subjects: Economic history
Description: 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? Economic historian Clark tackles these questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.