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Subject(s)

• Economic history [Browse]

Series

• Princeton economic history of the Western world [More in this series]
• The Princeton economic history of the western world

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-407) and index.

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
• Institutions and growth
• The emergence of modern man
• Modern growth : the wealth of nations
• The puzzle of the industrial revolution
• The industrial revolution in England
• Why England? Why not China, Japan or India?
• Social consequences
• World growth since 1800
• The proximate sources of divergence
• Why isn't the whole world developed?
• Conclusion : strange new world.

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ISBN

• 9780691121352 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0691121354 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9780691141282
• 0691141282

LCCN

2007015166

OCLC

123029809

International Article Number

• 9780691121352
• 99819656452

Uri

• http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42070272m

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