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。
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>
转帖: 大家是否想过,为什麽造就西方世界荣景的工业革命会滥觞于英国?为什麽不是中国、印度或日本?这一切不是因为英国的煤矿、殖民地、宗教改革、启蒙运动,而是英国的人口素质所致。《告别施捨》的作者葛瑞里‧克拉克认为,英国的人口在1300至1760年期间成长缓慢,但此时...
评分看过英文原版了。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
评分转帖: 大家是否想过,为什麽造就西方世界荣景的工业革命会滥觞于英国?为什麽不是中国、印度或日本?这一切不是因为英国的煤矿、殖民地、宗教改革、启蒙运动,而是英国的人口素质所致。《告别施捨》的作者葛瑞里‧克拉克认为,英国的人口在1300至1760年期间成长缓慢,但此时...
评分翻译有几处错误,如下。 P185: 新的资本存量水平上,每新增1单位的资本就会使产出再增加dy0。 因此,只要利率保持不变,创新就会使得物质资本投资减少。 原文是induce,译者估计误认为reduce,所以完全弄反了。作者的意思是创新会导致物质资本投资。 P223 事实上,如果人口没...
评分或许经济学应该从历史学和生物学中或许灵感。 经济现象应该可以由常识解释,到底有没有宏观经济学是个很严肃的问题,回头看看马克思的书,或许也会有新的启发。 现代经济学,走在一个十字路口。因为建模高手们,现在没有很好的解释世界。 无休止的宽松货币政策会有怎么样的结...
iTunes U和Youtube上有Clark 09年以他这本书为课本的World Economic History before the Industrial Revolution的授课视频全集!是的Clark实在太萌了,讲课时对经济史的热情真是溢于言表啊~本是看书累了调剂一下,结果欲罢不能地看了好多【←咦效率真低...】
评分A stirring book with bold pronouncement and weak evidence.
评分iTunes U和Youtube上有Clark 09年以他这本书为课本的World Economic History before the Industrial Revolution的授课视频全集!是的Clark实在太萌了,讲课时对经济史的热情真是溢于言表啊~本是看书累了调剂一下,结果欲罢不能地看了好多【←咦效率真低...】
评分Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers into two sorts—foxes and hedgehogs—following Archilochus’s adage: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog one big thing.' -- Robert C. Allen
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