 
			 
				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>
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。
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A stirring book with bold pronouncement and weak evidence.
评分最大的感覺是做經濟史真是太難瞭。
评分第一部分五星,對工業革命前馬爾薩斯圖景的極佳描繪,數據工作獨到精妙,第二部分四星,數據價值同樣高,分析稍欠,對競爭理論的拒斥有些草率,第三部分三星,理論相當進取,但比較單薄
评分這本書比《Why Nations Fail》聽起來有說服力多瞭——我果然是老racist。但是不用說,racism永遠都聽起來都有post hoc癥。比如說想想中國和印度吧。書裏麵20世紀初的中國工人懶惰,生産率低下,和印度一模一樣,可是一轉眼就成為瞭世界工廠。100年的時間,對書中假設的進化而言,實在是太短瞭。
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