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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)
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 George 2022-06-30 02:05:59
虎头蛇尾 前面可以四星
0 有用 茶叶酱 2010-11-26 22:50:52
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0 有用 selina 2011-09-14 20:09:55
天啊，我终于看完这本书了 ，历时太久我差点忘记前面的内容。总体来说，工业革命是人类经济史上的重大转折，由此摆脱了人口和生活水平负相关的马尔萨斯理论。有意思的是本书提出了很多理论，然后一一举例反驳。纵然我不一定记得全部，好歹以后看到一项理论不会盲目相信。 还有进化论选择的工业革命的人的性格，我觉得这个可以解释贫富国家间efficiency的部分差别。当然索托说了，这跟人无关，只跟产权制度相关。保留... 天啊，我终于看完这本书了 ，历时太久我差点忘记前面的内容。总体来说，工业革命是人类经济史上的重大转折，由此摆脱了人口和生活水平负相关的马尔萨斯理论。有意思的是本书提出了很多理论，然后一一举例反驳。纵然我不一定记得全部，好歹以后看到一项理论不会盲目相信。 还有进化论选择的工业革命的人的性格，我觉得这个可以解释贫富国家间efficiency的部分差别。当然索托说了，这跟人无关，只跟产权制度相关。保留意见啊，因为我觉得都有关啊！！！！ (展开)
0 有用 whig 2013-03-04 04:09:17
第一部分五星，对工业革命前马尔萨斯图景的极佳描绘，数据工作独到精妙，第二部分四星，数据价值同样高，分析稍欠，对竞争理论的拒斥有些草率，第三部分三星，理论相当进取，但比较单薄
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。