Readings...


Additional Readings for the Class (not in Navin's reader)


1.  Industrial Revolution in England (chapter 11 in book):  DN McCloskey






A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
(forthcoming Princeton: Princeton University Press - rough draft from January)


 


  Preface
             iii

  Ackjnowledgements
             v

1.

Introduction……………………………………..

1-19

 

 

 

The Malthusian Trap: Economic Life to 1800

2.

The Logic of the Malthusian Economy………….

20-44

3.

Material Living Standards………………………..

45-84

4.

Fertility…………………………………………..

85-110

5.

Life Expectancy………………………………….

111-138

6.

Malthus and Darwin: Survival of the Richest…….

139-165

7.

Technological Advance…………………………..

166-181

  8.
  Institutions...............................................................
182-205 

9.

The Emergence of Modern Man................................

206-235

 

 

 

The Industrial Revolution

10.

Modern Growth: the Wealth of Nations…………

236-255

11.

The Problem of the Industrial Revolution………..

256-283

12.

The English Industrial Revolution,1760-1860….....

284-322

13.

Why England?  Why not China, Japan or India?.......

323-339

14.

Social Consequences ............................................

340-375




The Great Divergence

15.

The Great Divergence: World Growth since 1800..

376-410

16.

The Proximate Sources of Divergence…………...

411-439

17.

Why Isn’t the Whole World Developed?..................

440-465

18.

Conclusion: Strange New World…………………

466-467

 

 

 

 

Technical Appendix……………………………...

468-472

 

References………………………………………..

473-499