A Farewell to Alms

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格裏高利·剋拉剋,加州大學戴維斯分校經濟係主任,著名經濟史研究專傢。

出版者:Princeton University Press
作者:Gregory Clark
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頁數:432
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出版時間:2007-8-13
價格:USD 29.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780691121352
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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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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...  

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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...  

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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...  

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最大的感覺是做經濟史真是太難瞭。

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dr.clark/UC Davis

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對長時段經濟史的無數種解讀中的一種。

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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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物競天擇經濟發展學

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