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“Words cannot express how interesting this course is.
Even if you've read _A Farewell to Alms_, Clark does an incredible job of expressing the essence of each of his arguments, along with providing both new information that he's learned since the book was written, and details on how each piece of historical data was calculated.
This would be good enough, but Clark is an engaging lecturer, is organized and keeps to a schedule, and unlike too many lecturers, wastes no class time talking about administrative details. Every lecture starts with a theme and spends the 50 minutes discussing that theme carefully.
As one final bonus, Clark appears to be marvelously non-dogmatic. At every stage in every argument, he tells us not just how the cliometrics were established, but what the problems with the data might be. He's perfectly willing to mention and discuss pieces of evidence contrary to his thesis as they're encountered. He really does come across as someone looking at a particular historical puzzle, who is interested purely in "what is the answer, how do we explain this?", NOT in "who gets credit for the answer" or "how can I use this history to shore up my particular political/nationalist/theological agenda".
I have only one complaint which is --- please, oh please, UC Davis and Gregory Clark, give a few other classes on various other parts of economics and history, and podcast them all !!!”
Maynard Handley via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/03/11
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“This book was Haboglabtribinilly good.
Matter in fact, it was so Haboglabtribinilly good that I almost blew up into a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Although I didn't read this I just wrote a review about Walter White in the "Bananarama"
Good job!”Read full review »
The Wasabi via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
03/21/14
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“This lecture series inspired my interest in economic history. Clark believes the discipline is key to understanding past present and future.”
Brutcake via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
04/22/19
“This is a fascinating course, based upon the instructor's book "An End to Alms." The course was given after the book was published, so the instructor addressed items brought up by readers. I'm not sure I agree with his conclusions about the possible causes of the Industrial Revolution, but he...”Read full review »
ProgFred via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/26/11
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