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Science 19 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5849, pp. 394 - 396
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149498
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ECONOMICS:
Genetically Capitalist?

Samuel Bowles

A Farewell to Alms
A Brief Economic History of the World
by Gregory Clark
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007. 432 pp. $29.95, £17.95. ISBN 9780691121352
The author argues that England's take-off in the industrial revolution was caused by cultural values (such as hard work and patience) that had taken hold because the rich enjoyed higher fitness than the rest.
The reviewer, the author of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution, is at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA, and in the Department of Political Economics, University of Siena. E-mail: bowles{at}santafe.edu

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