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...
| Основен автор: | Clark, Gregory, 1957- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2007.
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| Серия: |
The Princeton economic history of the western world
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Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world
- pt. 1. The
- Malthusian trap : economic life to 1800
- 2. The
- logic of the Malthusian economy
- 3.
- Living standards
- 4.
- Fertility
- 5.
- Life expectancy
- 6.
- Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest
- 7.
- Technological advance
- 8.
- Institutions and growth
- 9. The
- emergence of modern man
- pt. 2. The
- Industrial Revolution
- 10.
- Modern growth : the wealth of nations
- 11. The
- puzzle of the industrial revolution
- 12. The
- industrial revolution in England
- 13.
- Why England? Why not China, Japan or India?
- 14.
- Social consequences
- pt. 3. The
- great divergence
- 15.
- World growth since 1800
- 16. The
- proximate sources of divergence
- 17.
- Why isn't the whole world developed?
- 18.
- Conclusion : strange new world
- Technical appendix
- References
- Index
- Figure credits.