Background
Gregory was born on September 19, 1957, in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Son of John Clark and Josephine Hanaway.
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A Farewell to Alms A Brief Economic History of the World . Princeton University Press, 2008.
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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? 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. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
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economist university professor
Gregory was born on September 19, 1957, in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Son of John Clark and Josephine Hanaway.
Bachelor, King's College, Cambridge University, England, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985.
After school he earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics and philosophy at King"s College, Cambridge in 1979 and his Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard in 1985. He has also taught as an Assistant Professor at Stanford and the University of Michigan. Clark is now a professor of economics, and was (until 2013) department chair, at the University of California, Davis.
His areas of research are long term economic growth, the wealth of nations, and the economic history of England and India.
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
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Married Mary Katherine McComb, June 30, 1984. Children: Maximilian Peter McComb, Madeline Ruth McComb, Innis Cormac McComb.