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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
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| Series: | The Princeton economic history of the western world
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world
- pt. 1. The Malthusian trap : economic life to 1800
- 2. The logic of the Malthusian economy
- 3. Living standards
- 4. Fertility
- 5. Life expectancy
- 6. Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest
- 7. Technological advance
- 8. Institutions and growth
- 9. The emergence of modern man
- pt. 2. The Industrial Revolution
- 10. Modern growth : the wealth of nations
- 11. The puzzle of the industrial revolution
- 12. The industrial revolution in England
- 13. Why England? Why not China, Japan or India?
- 14. Social consequences
- pt. 3. The great divergence
- 15. World growth since 1800
- 16. The proximate sources of divergence
- 17. Why isn't the whole world developed?
- 18. Conclusion : strange new world
- Technical appendix
- References
- Index
- Figure credits.
