&
DECRG (Development Economics Research Group)
invite you to a book launch of a recent Princeton Unversity Press
publication
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| (Embedded | A Farewell to Alms |
| image moved | A Brief Economic History of the World |
| to file: | By Gregory Clark |
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| | 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? |
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| | 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. |
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Monday, September 10, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
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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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