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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is a 2007 book about economic history by Gregory Clark. It is published by Princeton University Press . The book's title, like Clark's other book The Son Also Rises , is a pun on Ernest Hemingway 's novel, A Farewell to Arms .
He has been the editor-in-chief of the Princeton Economic History of the Western World (a book series published by Princeton University Press) since 1993, and was a co-editor of the Journal of Economic History from 1994 to 1998. [4] He was President of the Economic History Association from 2002 to 2003. [4]
The economic history of the world encompasses the development of human economic activity throughout time. It has been estimated that throughout prehistory, the world average GDP per capita was about $158 per annum (inflation adjusted for 2013), and did not rise much until the Industrial Revolution .
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy is a 2000 nonfiction book by Kenneth Pomeranz, published by Princeton University Press, [1] on the subject of Great Divergence in the world history. [2] The book won the John K. Fairbank Prize for 2000. [3] It was a joint winner for World History Association Book ...
The first journal specializing in the field of economic history was The Economic History Review, founded in 1927, as the main publication of the Economic History Society. The first journal featured a publication by Professor Sir William Ashley , the first Professor of Economic History in the English-speaking world, who described the emerging ...
In the 2018 Q.S. World University Rankings, the department places as No. 3 in the world in the fields of Economics and Econometrics. [18] The 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks the department as No. 7 globally. [19] It has been ranked by RePEc among the top ten economics Departments in the world. [20]
Harold James (born 19 January 1956 in Bedford, United Kingdom) is an economic historian specialising in the history of Germany and European economic history.He is a Professor of History at Princeton University as well as the university's Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
Description: A political-economic treatise by Karl Marx. Marx wrote this critical analysis of capitalism and of the political economy from the perspective of historical materialism, the view that history can be understood as a sequence of modes of production in which exploiting classes extract an economic surplus from exploited classes.