Clark's Economic History of the World
Greg Clark is writing a short book. It looks excellent--although he does, I think, place much too much stress on increasing prudence as the driver of the Industrial Revolution:
The Conquest of Nature: A Brief Economic History of the World, 10,000 BC-2000 AD :
- Introduction
- The Logic of the Malthusian Economy
- Living Standards
- Fertility
- Mortality
- Technological Change in the Malthusian Era
- Economic Change before 1800
- Explaining Modern Growth
- The Problem of the Industrial Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution in England
- The Social Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
- The Great Divergence – World Economic Growth since 1800
- The Proximate Sources of Divergence
- Explaining Divergence