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Gregory Clark 出版社: Princeton University Press 副标题: A Brief Economic History of the World 出版年: 2007-8-13 页数: 432 定价: USD 29.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780691121352
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, Gr...
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>
In contrast in England the majority of people, until quite close to 1800, lived in dwellings with beaten earth floors covered by rushes that were only infrequently renewed. Into these rushes went deposits of waste food, urine, and spit. Indeed the effluvium deposited on floors from ordinary household business was so rich that, when saltpeter men were empowered in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to dig out the earth floors as rich sources of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), they allegedly dug up not just barn floors but also the floors of houses. (查看原文)
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
终于看完了格里高利.克拉克的《a Farewell to Alms:a Brief Economic History of the World》，来这里谈谈自己的看法。 看了一些评论，不少人在推荐这本书，这些人主要是专业的学者；不少人也在鄙视这本书，认为这本书没什么价值，就如我在豆瓣这里看到的。我要说的是，这本书...
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P217 “这一时期唯一可能解释婚龄下降且结婚频率较高的现象就是因难产而死是孕妇人数增加。” 原文“decline”是下降。 原文The only feature of this period that might explain earlier and more frequent marriage is the decline of maternal deaths from childbirth.
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0 有用 Kat 2014-11-02 10:06:23
最大的感觉是做经济史真是太难了。
0 有用 みちる 2013-11-08 20:52:16
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
0 有用 Vocarious 2015-01-19 14:19:54
Truly insightful and rewarding. The intellectual honesty and seriousness demonstrated in this book is breathtaking. Deserves a reread and note taking.
0 有用 茶叶酱 2010-11-26 22:50:52
物竞天择经济发展学
0 有用 Donald 2010-05-06 05:50:07
Patently ridiculous, but intriguing nonetheless.
0 有用 雪痕 2024-04-24 14:19:29 陕西
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0 有用 Caimi 2024-03-28 16:03:02 浙江
配合作者的课程看，相当推荐，在众多革命中，工业革命的作用最直接最无可辩驳，再进一步的原因就都要首先问一句真的是这样嘛？了解或支持工业党必看～
0 有用 George 2022-06-30 02:05:59
虎头蛇尾 前面可以四星
0 有用 局外人 2022-05-15 23:33:31
作者用了大半本书的章节分析了前工业时代的马尔萨斯陷阱，但对于工业革命经济转型的原因分析却依然不够solid，虎头蛇尾感
0 有用 EHRUCCAded 2022-03-13 00:41:35
Though it is a book of economic history, the title is reminiscent of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.