A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world

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-a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Gregory
Format: EBOOK
Other Format: BOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Princeton University Press 2008
Series:The Princeton economic history of the western world
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