Books by Gregory Clark
Found 2 books
That is from Greg Clark’s new and noteworthy The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility . Here is Kevin Drum on the book .
You can buy the book here . Here is a previous MR post on the book , there will be more to come.
Here is Dylan Matthews interviewing Gregory Clark about his new book The Son also Rises :
I’ll be doing the first post on Greg Clark’s A Farewell to Alms this Tuesday, try to read the first 112 pages. In the meantime, here is a review from The Economist .
I’d like to soon start the MR BookForum on Greg Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World . I hear you’re all getting your copies now. Ideally I’d put up the first post within 5-10 days, noting that the first session will be setting and overview. You won’t need to have started the book by then. Are you in fact all getting your copies from Amazon or elsewhere?
You may recall that we are having the first MarginalRevolution BookForum on Greg Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World . Here is my previous post on the book and how the forum will work. It’s a great book and I recommend it highly.
OK people, we’re going to do an MR book forum on Greg Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World . Pre-order it, get it July 27. (Guess whose book you can buy it with, for a two-fer discount ?) We’ll start the first chapter or so about a week after that and I’ll discuss the book sequentially.