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IJE Advance Access published online on May 3, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyn074
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Book Review

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

Stanley L Engerman

E-mail: enge@troi.cc.rochester.edu

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Gregory Clark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. xii, 420, $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-691-1235-2.

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Gregory Clark, an economic historian in the economics department at the University of California, Davis, has published significant analytical and quantitative papers on, among other topics, British economic history and comparative economic development in today's world. These have been based upon some imaginative primary research and a thorough knowledge of the relevant literature. In A Farewell to Alms, Clark has written ‘A Brief Economic History of the World’, covering the period from about 100 000 BC to date. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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