Clark argues that it is culture, not exploitation, geography or resources, that determines the wealth and poverty of nations, and challenges the positive notions of industrialisation. 'Any book that is as bold, as fascinating, as conscientiously argued and as politically incorrect as this one demands to be read' Clive Crook, }Financial Times Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? This title tackles these profound questions and suggests a fresh way in which culture explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
