"A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & DECRG (Development Economics Research Group)

invite you to a book launch of a recent Princeton Unversity Press publication

A Farewell to Alms
A Brief Economic History of the World
By Gregory Clark

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
Monday, September 10, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoSHopevents@worldbank.org
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Moderated by
Karla Hoff
Senior Research Economist
Ms. Hoff is a Senior Research Economist in the Development Economics Group. Her
research focuses on institutions and institutional change, particularly in the
former Soviet Union and India. Her co-edited book manuscript Poverty Traps
brings together three strands of the literature on threshold effects,
institutions, and neighborhood effects. She has also written on market responses
to uncertainty and imperfect information, and on the ways that these responses
may perpetuate poverty.

Presented by Author
Gregory Clark
Mr. Clark is a professor of Economics at University of California, Davis, and
also a department Chair. His main research area is long run economic growth,
the wealth of nations, with particular focus on the economic history of England
and India. Mr. Clark teaches undergraduate and graduate world economic history,
and helps organize the Economic History Seminar.

Comments by
Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, World Bank
Mr. Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank, has
held appointments at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Brown, and Williams
College. His work integrates economic and anthropological methods to inform
poverty-reduction policies in poor countries. He has published several papers
in leading journals on a spectrum of topics under the broad themes of
decentralized local development, culture and development, gender equity, and
mixed methods.
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