{"id":4599,"date":"2008-11-04T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2008-11-04T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:52:08","slug":"european-review-of-economic-history-a-farewell-to-alms-big-history-or-quick-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"European Review of Economic History: A Farewell to Alms &#8211; &#8216;big history&#8217; or &#8216;quick fix&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/login\">Cambridge Journals<\/a> writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published in\u00a02007, Gregory Clark&#8217;s <em>A Farewell to Alms<\/em> has attracted more attention than any economic history monograph since Fogel and  Engerman&#8217;s <em>Time of the Cross<\/em> appeared in 1974. In recognition of its  extraordinary impact, the <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=ERE\">European Review of Economic  History<\/a><\/strong><\/em> has published a special symposium in which four of the  world&#8217;s most eminent scholars reflect on Gregory Clark&#8217;s important and  controversial propositions, followed by a response from the author himself.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read &#8211; free of charge &#8211; Deidre McCloskey, Hans Joachim-Voth, George Grantham, Karl Gunnar Persson, as well as\u00a0Gregory Clark himself, discussing this seminal work, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?jid=ERE&#038;volumeId=12&#038;issueId=02\"><strong>simply click  here<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>Please  note<\/strong>: this offer lasts only until 30 November 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge Journals writes: Published in\u00a02007, Gregory Clark&#8217;s A Farewell to Alms has attracted more attention than any economic history monograph since Fogel and Engerman&#8217;s Time of the Cross appeared in 1974. In recognition of its extraordinary impact, the European Review &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}