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A Review of Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World.
- Abstract:
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A Farewell to Alms advances striking claims about the economic history of the world. These include (1) the preindustrial world was in a Malthusian preventive check equilibrium, (2) living standards were unchanging and above subsistence for the last 100,000 years, (3) bad institutions were not the cause of economic backwardness, (4) successful economic growth was due to the spread of "middle class" values from the elite to the rest of society for "biological" reasons, (5) workers were the big ...
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- Publisher:
- American Economic Association
- Journal:
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 946 - 973
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0022-0515
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:10941
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- 2008
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