A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

By R. Alcalde. 2009

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Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research (2019, background): “Human technological innovations like agriculture (Kavanagh et al., 2018) and industry (Clark, 2008) profoundly altered human lifestyles around the world.”
Cognitive skills affect economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment (2009, background): “, risk taking and saving propensity), may be implicated in the origins of economic growth in Europe with the industrial revolution (17).”
Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture (2014, unknown): “Prior subsistence theory cannot fully explain East-West differences because it focuses on herding versus farming (1), which is not the main EastWest difference.”
BRITISH ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1270-1870: AN OUTPUT-BASED APPROACH (2011, background): “This view has recently been supported by Clark (2004, 2005, 2007a), who constructs a new price index, refines the Phelps Brown and Hopkins industrial wage series and adds a wage series for agricultural labourers.”
The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty (2009, methodology): “His theory is supported, mainly for England, by historical facts about slow but steady changes in the composition of the population during the Malthusian era that ultimately allowed the take off to modern growth (Clark 2007).”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “The British Industrial Revolution illustrates this point vividly.”
Globalization and the Great Divergence: terms of trade booms, volatility and the poor periphery, 1782–1913 (2008, background): “Furthermore, the modern debate over ‘fundamental’ growth determinants like culture (Landes 1998; Clark 2007), geography (Diamond 1997; Sachs 2001; Easterly and Levine 2003) and institutions (North and Weingast 1989; Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson 2005), in contributing to the Great Divergence,…”
Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260–1850 (2019, unknown): “With the exception of Clark and Van der Werf (1998), discussed in more detail below, previous studies have ignored annual payments in constructing long-run income series.”
The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War, and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe (2013, background): “Young (2005) concludes that HIV inAfrica has a silver lining because it increases the scarcity of labour, boosting the consumption of survivors.10 Clark (2007) highlights the benign effect of higher death rates on p.c. income in the Malthusian period.”
A Farewell to Critical Junctures: Sorting Out Long-Run Causality of Income and Democracy (2009, methodology): “Clark (2007) builds on Unified Growth Theory, especially on the evolutionary growth model of Galor and Moav (2002).”