A Farewell to Alms

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格里高利·克拉克,加州大学戴维斯分校经济系主任,著名经济史研究专家。

出版者:Princeton University Press
作者:Gregory Clark
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页数:432
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出版时间:2007-8-13
价格:USD 29.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780691121352
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  • 经济 
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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.</p>

Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education.</p>

The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations.</p>

A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.</p>

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* 尽管从人类起源至今,人类的技术水平有个很大提高,但人类生活水平的真正提高,是最近200年,工业革命以后的事。因为在这之前,人类无法摆脱“马尔萨斯陷阱”的制约,技术进步的结果,产生了更多的人口,结果人均收入水平,并没提高。换句话说,在克拉克看来,即使是1800...  

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1、 在我固有的书单里,应该不会出现这样一本书,即便它的名字叫《应该读点经济史》。 对于这类略带强势的标题我一般都敬而远之,比如你必须知道的**一类书,我会想我不知道的时候过得也挺好;另外,对于经济学一类的书,我很少有勇气拿起来看。 在我读大学的时候,有相当长...

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看过英文原版了。台湾繁体字版翻译为《告別施捨:世界經濟簡史》(A Farewell to Alms)。网上已经有不少评论了。 这书里都是作者自己的逻辑和论证。 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4af8e74101008fdl.html http://www.strongwind.com.hk/article.aspx?id=7218  

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1、 在我固有的书单里,应该不会出现这样一本书,即便它的名字叫《应该读点经济史》。 对于这类略带强势的标题我一般都敬而远之,比如你必须知道的**一类书,我会想我不知道的时候过得也挺好;另外,对于经济学一类的书,我很少有勇气拿起来看。 在我读大学的时候,有相当长...

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看过英文原版了。台湾繁体字版翻译为《告別施捨:世界經濟簡史》(A Farewell to Alms)。网上已经有不少评论了。 这书里都是作者自己的逻辑和论证。 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4af8e74101008fdl.html http://www.strongwind.com.hk/article.aspx?id=7218  

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Truly insightful and rewarding. The intellectual honesty and seriousness demonstrated in this book is breathtaking. Deserves a reread and note taking.

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读到最后不禁汗颜,作者暗示经济增长的区别其实来源于work ethics和discipline。的确,在我有限的个人经验里,虽然经过高考洗礼,中国econ phd学生包括我的discipline确实整体弱于老外。

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dr.clark/UC Davis

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A very interesting social Darwinism perspective of economic history.

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马尔萨斯陷阱。作者在收集数据方面很NB

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