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Gregory Clark of University of Southern Denmark reviews “The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism” by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Discusses the English economy from 1300 to about 1820, focusing on the foundational conditions that enabled a dramatic transition from stagnation to growth that occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
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