The American novelist Scott Fitzgerald is supposed to have said once to Ernest Hemingway, ‘You know, the rich are different from you and me.’ Hemingway replied, ‘Yes. They’ve got more money. ’ Gregory Clark is of the Fitzgerald school. Most economic historians, among them his critics, follow Hemingway instead. Clark modestly sub-entitles his book ‘A Brief Economic History of the World’. Brief indeed. In one-and-a-half pages towards the middle he deals briskly with the numerous alternatives to his materialist and richness-admiring hypothesis: ‘Social historians may invoke the Protestant Reformation,... intellectual historians the Scientific Revolution... or the Enlightenment... But a problem with these invocations of movers from outside the ...
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This extended essay is a study of the extent to which the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzge...
Clark's claims about the scale of English agricultural output from the 1200s to the 1860s flout hist...
Those authors who criticized material success as a proper or rewarding goal in life were not moving ...
n a famous imaginary exchange, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The rich are different from us."...
Many will recognize the title of this review as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous refer
A Farewell to Alms advances striking claims about the economic history of the world. These include (...
“I conclude with an unworthy hypothesis regarding past and present directions of economic research. ...
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” These famous lines by F. ...
Typically, members of the middle-class of American society are fascinated by the extremely wealthy p...
Considers “Big Two-Hearted River,” The Age of Innocence (1920), and The Great Gatsby (1925) within a...
Economists are not known for their literary imaginations. Flip through any economics textbook and yo...
Where did Fitzgerald get the idea of having Clay's Economics reside in Nick Carraway's library?
On the influence of Harold Loeb’s essay “The Mysticism of Money” on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1...
Most things in life – automobiles, mistresses, cancer – are important only to those who have them. M...
An extreme materialist hypothesis explaining the Industrial Revolution would be simply genetic. Gre...
This extended essay is a study of the extent to which the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzge...
Clark's claims about the scale of English agricultural output from the 1200s to the 1860s flout hist...
Those authors who criticized material success as a proper or rewarding goal in life were not moving ...