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According to Wikipedia, Gregory Clark is an economic historian at the University of Southern Denmark. He is known for his economic research on the industrial revolution and social mobility. Biography Clark, whose grandfathers were migrants to Scotland from Ireland, was born in Bellshill, Scotland. He attended Holy Cross High School in Hamilton. In 1974 he and fellow pupil Paul Fitzpatrick won the Scottish Daily Express schools debating competition. He earned a BA degree in economics and philosophy at King's College, Cambridge in 1979 and a PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1985. He has also taught as an assistant professor at Stanford and the University of Michigan.

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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (2007) (827)
The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209–2004 (2005) (422)
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (2014) (331)
The Long March of History: Farm Wages, Population, and Economic Growth, England 1209-1869 (2007) (302)
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills (1987) (275)
The Political Foundations of Modern Economic Growth: England, 1540-1800 (1996) (212)
Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England (2006) (176)
A British food puzzle, 1770–1850 (1995) (165)
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in England, 1858–2012: Surnames and Social Mobility (2015) (148)
Work in Progress? The Industrious Revolution (1998) (141)
Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1869 (2007) (140)
The Macroeconomic Aggregates for England, 1209-2008 (2009) (137)
THE PRICE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE, 1209–1914 (2004) (134)
Farm wages and living standards in the Industrial Revolution: England, 1670-1869. (2001) (133)
The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (review) (2001) (119)
COLLEGE STUDENTS AND BINGE DRINKING: AN EVALUATION OF SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY (2005) (111)
Commons Sense: Common Property Rights, Efficiency, and Institutional Change (1998) (111)
Social Bond Theory and Binge Drinking among College Students: A Multivariate Analysis (1999) (95)
The cost of capital and medieval agricultural technique (1988) (89)
Land rental values and the agrarian economy: England and Wales, 1500 1914 (2002) (88)
Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists (2010) (87)
Debt, deficits, and crowding out: England, 1727–1840 (2001) (79)
Productivity Growth without Technical Change in European Agriculture before 1850 (1987) (77)
Factory Discipline (1994) (75)
Yields per acre in English agriculture, 1250-1860: evidence from labour inputs (1991) (74)
Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England. (2009) (73)
HUMAN CAPITAL, FERTILITY, AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (2005) (66)
Shelter from the storm: housing and the Industrial Revolution, 1550-1909. (2002) (64)
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History . By Angus Maddison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 418. $99.00, cloth; $42.95, paper. (2009) (61)
Malthus to modernity: wealth, status, and fertility in England, 1500–1879 (2015) (49)
A Review of Avner Greif's Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade (2007) (48)
Renting The Revolution (1998) (48)
In defense of the Malthusian interpretation of history (2008) (44)
Community College Leadership and Administration: Theory, Practice, and Change (2011) (44)
COMMON RIGHTS TO LAND IN ENGLAND, 1475–1839 (2001) (44)
Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and Performance in Indian Cotton Textiles, 1890–1938 (1999) (41)
Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1170–2012 (2014) (39)
The Great Escape: The Industrial Revolution in Theory and in History (2003) (38)
Surnames: A new source for the history of social mobility (2015) (37)
Land Hunger: Land as a Commodity and as a Status Good, England, 1500–1910 (1998) (37)
In fear of China (1969) (36)
What is the True Rate of Social Mobility in Sweden? A Surname Analysis, 1700-2012 (2012) (35)
What is the True Rate of Social Mobility ? Surnames and Social Mobility in England , 1800-2012 (2012) (35)
The Economics of Exhaustion, the Postan Thesis, and the Agricultural Revolution (1992) (34)
Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780 (2012) (34)
A farewell to alms (2005) (32)
Authority and Efficiency: The Labor Market and the Managerial Revolution of the Late Nineteenth Century (1984) (31)
The Long March of History: Farm Laborers Wages in England 1208-1850 (2001) (30)
Microbes and Markets: Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution? (2016) (28)
1381 and the Malthus Delusion (2010) (27)
Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model (2018) (27)
Malthus to Modernity: England’s First Fertility Transition, 1760-1800 (2010) (25)
Geography is not destiny: geography, institutions and literacy in England, 1837–63 (2014) (24)
Chapter 3. One Polity, Many Countries: Economic Growth in India, 1873–2000 (2003) (24)
The growing dependence of Britain on trade during the Industrial Revolution (2014) (24)
Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution (2008) (22)
The Consumer Revolution: Turning Point in Human History, or Statistical Artifact? (2010) (21)
Markets before economic growth: the grain market of medieval England (2015) (20)
Winter Is Coming: Robert Gordon and the Future of Economic Growth (2016) (20)
Surnames and social mobility: England 1230-2012 (2013) (19)
Clarification: Surnames and Social Mobility in England (2015) (19)
Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth (2012) (18)
Social Mobility in China, 1645-2012: A Surname Study (2012) (17)
Productivity Growth Without Technical Change in European Agriculture: Reply to Komlos (1989) (14)
A Review Essay on The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 by Joel Mokyr (2012) (14)
Growth or Stagnation? Farming in England, 1200–1800 (2018) (14)
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 : Review Essay (2012) (13)
Enterprising Oxford, Vol. 1 - Growth of the Oxfordshire high-tech economy (2003) (13)
The Industrial Revolution (2014) (13)
The Child Quality-Quantity Tradeoff, England, 1780-1880: A Fundamental Component of the Economic Theory of Growth is Missing (2016) (13)
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Living Costs of the Rich versus the Poor in England, 1209-1869 (2004) (12)
What is the True Rate of Social Mobility? Evidence from the Information Content of Surnames (2013) (12)
2 What Made Britannia Great ? How Much of the Rise of Britain to World Dominance by 1850 Does the Industrial Revolution Explain ? (2006) (11)
What is the True Rate of Social Mobility ? Surnames and Social Mobility in England , 1800-2011 " Wednesday , May 2 , 2012 1 : 20 to 2 : 50 pm (2012) (10)
Labor productivity and farm size in English agriculture before mechanization: A note (1991) (10)
The Australian economy: What is to be done? (1991) (9)
Welfare reform, 1834: Did the New Poor Law in England produce significant economic gains? (2018) (9)
1 Markets and Economic Growth : The Grain Market of Medieval England 1 (2000) (9)
Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500 (2005) (9)
Caste versus Class : Social Mobility in India 1870-2010 compared to England , 1086-2010 (2011) (9)
Inequality and social mobility in the Era of the Industrial Revolution (2014) (9)
Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? A Reply to Hanson (1989) (8)
Enterprising Oxford, Vol. 2 - Anatomy of the Oxfordshire high-tech economy (2003) (8)
Social Mobility Rates in the USA , 1920-2010 : A Surname Analysis (2012) (7)
Randomness in the Bedroom: There Is No Evidence for Fertility Control in Pre-Industrial England (2019) (7)
Regression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009 (2010) (7)
Was Pre-Industrial Society Malthusian? Tests from England and New France (2004) (7)
The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Volume VII, 1850–1914. Edited by E. J. T. Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xl, 2277. $295.00. (2001) (7)
Can Management Develop the World? Reply to Wilkins (1988) (6)
Welfare Reform, 1834 (2008) (6)
Social Mobility in Japan, 1868-2012: The Surprising Persistence of the Samurai (2012) (6)
The efficiency gains from site value taxes: the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 (2005) (6)
Intergenerational mobility in England, 1858-2012. Wealth, surnames, and social mobility (2013) (5)
Twins Support the Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pretransition Populations (2020) (5)
Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017 (2017) (5)
Caste versus Class : Social Mobility in India , 1860-2012 (2012) (5)
The Indicted and the Wealthy: Surnames, Reproductive Success, Genetic Selection and Social Class in Pre-Industrial England (2009) (5)
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: The demographic transition and human capital (2010) (5)
Frontiers of Mobility: Was Australia 1870-2017 a More Socially Mobile Society than England? (2020) (4)
The Surprising Wealth of Pre-Industrial England (2010) (4)
Common Rights in Land in England , 1475-1839 1 (2001) (4)
Too Much Revolution: Agriculture in the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1860 (2018) (4)
Was there ever a Ruling Class? Rare Surnames and Long Run Social Mobility in England, 1858-2011 (2011) (4)
The Beckerian Family and the English Demographic Revolution of 1800 (2011) (4)
The Domestication of Man: The Social Implications of Darwin (2009) (3)
AN ANALYSIS OF JAPANESE DIRECT INVESTMENT OVERSEAS IN POSTWAR YEARS (1971) (3)
In Defense of “Commons Sense”: Reply to Chapman (1999) (3)
Surnames and the Laws of Social Mobility (2012) (3)
What made Britannia great? Did the Industrial Revolution make Britain a World Power? (2006) (3)
The Personal and the Theoretical (1998) (3)
Was There Ever a Ruling Class? A Proposal for the study of 800 Years of Social Mobility (2009) (3)
The Big Sort: Selective Migration and the Decline of Northern England, 1780-2018 (2018) (3)
Enclosure, land improvement, and the price of capital : A Reply to Jones (1990) (3)
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs—What's Wrong with Our Diplomats (1975) (3)
India, Japan, Australia—Partners in Asia? (1970) (3)
The Long-term Decline in Real Interest Rates: Comment (1991) (2)
Malthus to Modernity : Income , Fertility and Economic Growth in England , 1500-1914 (2008) (2)
Economic growth in history and in theory (1993) (2)
Correction to: ‘Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model’ (2018) (2)
Measuring Inequality through the Strength of Inheritance (2010) (2)
The Origins of Modern Growth : Fertility and Human Capital in England , 1500-1914 (2009) (2)
Exceptionalism and Industrialization: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688–1815. Edited by Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 335. $95. (2006) (2)
Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor. By William Lazonick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Pp. vi, 419. $37.50 (1991) (2)
The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth (2004) (2)
The Industrial Revolution: A Cliometric Perspective (2019) (2)
A practical approach to systems engineering (2004) (2)
Manufacturing Growth : What is the path to prosperity in Africa ? (2009) (2)
Ian Morris. The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations (2014) (2)
The Japanese Economy (2002) (2)
10. Modern Growth: The Wealth of Nations (2007) (2)
Are there Ruling Classes ? Surnames and Social Mobility in England , 1800-2011 (2011) (2)
On the Other Hand... (1991) (2)
Time and Work in England, 1750–1830. By Hans-Joachim Voth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 304. £40. (2001) (2)
Interpreting English Economic History 1200-1800: Malthusian Stasis or Early Dynamism? (2006) (2)
10 GREGORY CLARK ON NAMES (2016) (1)
Sino‐Japanese relations — An analysis (1971) (1)
Understanding the Japanese (1983) (1)
Does Culture Matter? an Exchange (1988) (1)
Remembering Robert J. Connors (2000) (1)
11. Chile: Mobility among the Oligarchs (2015) (1)
Twins Support Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pre-Transition Western European Populations (2019) (1)
Social Mobility and Political Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949–2017 (2020) (1)
8. India: Caste, Endogamy, and Mobility (2015) (1)
Is Most Wealth Inherited or Created? England, 1858-2012 (2015) (1)
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi, 393. $34.95 (2011) (1)
5. The Spread of the Industrial Revolution, 1860-2000 (2002) (1)
An economic history of Europe: knowledge, institutions and growth, 600 to the present – By Karl Gunnar Persson (2011) (1)
History, Policy, and Economic Theory: Essays in Interaction. By W. W. Rostow. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 385. $59.95 (1991) (1)
Was there ever a Ruling Class ? Surnames and Social Mobility in England , 1200-2009 (2010) (1)
Urbanization, Health and Income in Malthusian Europe (2009) (1)
The Rhetoric of Jazz (2018) (1)
Nation, state and the industrial revolution: the visible hand - By Lars Magnusson (2009) (0)
The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploring the Myth of Social Evolution. By Graeme Donald Snooks. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xiv, 585. $125, cloth (1998) (0)
CONFUCIAN CULTURE AND JAPANESE ETHICS/EDUCATION (2000) (0)
WATER—The Renewable Energy Source (1995) (0)
Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850. By Mark Overton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 258. $54.95, cloth. $19.95 paper (1998) (0)
The University in the City of God: Dialectics and Rhetoric (1998) (0)
“ Survival of the Richest ” in the Pre-industrial World and Modern Human Nature (2008) (0)
Was there ever a Ruling Class ? 1 , 000 years of Social Mobility in England (2010) (0)
16. Escaping Downward Social Mobility (2015) (0)
A markovian-based approach to measure task interdependence (1994) (0)
A New Foreign Policy for Australia? [Book Review] (1973) (0)
New Histories of Rhetoric (1996) (0)
10. Japan and Korea: Social Homogeneity and Mobility (2015) (0)
15. Is Mobility Too Low? Mobility versus Inequality (2015) (0)
12. The Law of Social Mobility and Family Dynamics (2015) (0)
14. Mobility Anomalies (2015) (0)
5. Modern England: Th e Deep Roots of the Present (2015) (0)
SAVING THE LINE. (1996) (0)
8. Institutions and Growth (2007) (0)
You're never too old. (1971) (0)
Introduction (2004) (0)
La Filature de coton dans le monde en 1910: Une analyse comparée (1908–1913)/Cotton Spinning Around the World in 1910: A Comparative Analysis (1908–1913). By David Asséo. Geneva: Centre of International Economic History, 1989. Pp. 98 (1991) (0)
Discourse at the Boundaries of Community. (1995) (0)
The fragile face of force: Far Eastern Economic Review28 November 1970 (1971) (0)
In-line skating: its the real deal. (1997) (0)
Community forum. 10. Professional insecurity. (1982) (0)
The Causes of Progress: Culture, Authority and Change . By Emmanuel Todd. Translated by Richard Boulin. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. xv, 217. $34.95. (1988) (0)
6. A Law of Social Mobility (2015) (0)
The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth. By Richard H. Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 241. $65. (2004) (0)
DISEASE AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVESf Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England (2009) (0)
Comments on Dye, Huck, and Sicsic (1993) (0)
Public Lectures 11. People and Management in the International Era (2000) (0)
4. Medieval England: Mobility in the Feudal Age (2015) (0)
Malthus to modernity: wealth, status, and fertility in England, 1500–1879 (2014) (0)
Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium (1986) (0)
Welfare reform, 1834: Did the New Poor Law in England produce significant economic gains? (2018) (0)
"Doc": 100 year history of the Sick Berth Branch (1984) (0)
Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650–1950 . By John Habakkuk. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 786. $98.00. (1995) (0)
3. Living Standards (2007) (0)
I. The old system and the new (1966) (0)
The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 308. $65, cloth; $23.99, paper. (2007) (0)
Markets before economic growth: the grain market of medieval England (2014) (0)
Winners and Losers from Globalization: Why Both European and US Farmers Were Angry in the Grain Invasion Era, 1870-1900 (2013) (0)
9. China and Taiwan: Mobility aft er Mao (2015) (0)
Appendix 1: measuring social mobility (2015) (0)
Changes (2004) (0)
1. Introduction: Of Ruling Classes and Underclasses: Th e Laws of Social Mobility (2015) (0)
Surnames and a Theory of Social Mobility (2013) (0)
Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1170–2012 (2014) (0)
The World of the Rural Labourer in Colonial India. Edited by Gyan Prakash. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. viii, 310. $19.95 (1993) (0)
Is one of the Fundaments of Unified Growth Theory Missing? The Child Quality-Quantity Tradeoff in England, 1600-2012 (2013) (0)
Modern Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution 1 (2002) (0)
British Labor in Britain's Decline (1986) (0)
Systems Approach to Assembly (2006) (0)
Economic Growth Without Accumulation or Technical Change: Agriculture Before Mechanization (1989) (0)
7. Nature versus Nurture (2015) (0)
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940. By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 468. $69.95 (1995) (0)
9. FACTORY DISCIPLINE (2004) (0)
Family Networks versus Genetics in Social Outcomes, England 1750-2019 (2019) (0)
Land and Society in Britain, 1700–1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson. Edited by Negley Harte and Roland Quinault. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 255. $79.95 (1998) (0)
13. Why England? Why Not China, India, or Japan? (2007) (0)
The Civics of Getting Along (2014) (0)
Social Bond in Binge Drinking Questionnaire (2018) (0)
12. The Industrial Revolution in England (2007) (0)
Japan’s Unique Group Dynamic (2019) (0)
No Wonder Anti-Free Traders Are Angry (2005) (0)
9. The Emergence of Modern Man (2007) (0)
Surnames , Genetic Selection , and Social Mobility in Pre-Industrial England (2009) (0)
Phillipp R. Schofield, Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200–1500 . (Medieval Culture and Society.) Basingstoke, Eng., and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. vii, 279. $65 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). (2005) (0)
A Budding Writer Gets a Start (1992) (0)
Community psychiatric nursing. (1978) (0)
Welfare Reform , 18341 (0)
Appendix 2: deriving mobility rates from surname frequencies (2015) (0)
The Surprising Dynamism of the Malthusian World : Institutions , Preferences and Modern Growth (2005) (0)
The Surprising Dynamism of the Malthusian Economy: England, 1200-1800 (2005) (0)
Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies (2020) (0)
8. FACTORY DISCIPLINE (2005) (0)
Clarification: Surnames and Social Mobility in England (2015) (0)
Is There Profit in Reforming the Poor? The English Poor Law 1830-1842 (2001) (0)
Appendix 3: discovering the status of your surname lineage (2015) (0)
Was Pre-Industrial Society Malthusian ? Evidence from England and New France (2005) (0)
Malthusian Trap of lowering income standards by lowering the death (2009) (0)
General and Miscellaneous (1998) (0)
6 Technology in the Great Divergence (2003) (0)
Does Education Matter? Tests from Extensions of Compulsory Schooling in England and Wales 1919-22, 1947, and 1972 (2020) (0)
14. Social Consequences (2007) (0)
Data sources for figures and tables (2015) (0)
No Ordinary Academics: Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, 1910–1960. By Shirley Spafford. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 272. $45.00. (2001) (0)
Culture Versus Nature in Social Outcomes . A Lineage Study of 285 , 188 English Individuals , 1750-2018 (2018) (0)
Power and Economic Institutions: Reinterpretations in Economic History. Edited by Bo Gustafsson · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. vii + 344 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. $69.95. ISBN 1-85278-397-4 (1992) (0)
Survival of the Richest . Malthus , Darwin and Modern Economic Growth (2008) (0)
Measuring Social Mobility in Historic and Less Developed Societies (2021) (0)
Editor's Note (2007) (0)
2. Sweden: Mobility Achieved? (2015) (0)
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Vol. 3, 1348–1500. Edited by Edward Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xxv, 982. $130.00 (1992) (0)
Was there ever a ruling class? Social and economic mobility in England, 1200-2010 (2011) (0)

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A Farewell to Alms