A Farewell to Alms

By Gregory S. Clark. 2008

113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The problem, Clark says, is tha only societies that have long stories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences, History, History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship? (2008, unknown): “…the average numbers of children born for rural areas in Poland in 1948, and Clark and Hamilton (2006), who document a positive relationship between occupational status and the number of surviving children in England in the late 16th and early 17th century (see also Clark (2005) and Clark (2007)).”
• Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution (2012, unknown): “4Some scholars have argued that no sustained increases of income per capita occurred before 1800 (Clark, 2007).”
• New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development (2010, unknown): “There was extensive growth, but per capita income did not change much (Clark 2007; Kuznets 1966; Perkins 1969).”