Gregory Clark (born 19 September 1957) is an economic historian at the

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Biography

Clark, whose grandfathers were migrants to Scotland from Ireland, was born in Bellshill, Scotland. He attended Holy Cross High School in Hamilton. In 1974 he and a fellow pupil Paul Fitzpatrick won the

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schools debating competition. After school he earned his B.A. in economics and philosophy at

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

in 1979 and his PhD at

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in 1985. He has also taught as an assistant professor at Stanford and the

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. Clark is now a professor of economics, and was (until 2013) department chair, at the

. His areas of research are long term economic growth, the wealth of nations, the

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and

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, and social mobility. In 2021, a talk by Clark, titled "For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: A Lineage of 400,000 Individuals 1750-2020 Shows Genetics Determines Most Social Outcomes", was cancelled due to accusations of promoting eugenics.

Selected publications

Books

* ''

A Farewell to Alms ''A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World'' is a 2007 book about economic history by Gregory Clark. It is published by Princeton University Press. The book's title is a pun on Ernest Hemingway's novel, ''A Farewell to Arms''. ...

'' (2007), a Malthusian look at economic history * ''The Son Also Rises'' (2014), on social mobility.

Papers

* "Genetically Capitalist?" (2007), University of Californiahttp://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Capitalism%20Genes.pdf

References

External links

Gregory Clark's homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Gregory Living people 1957 births People from Bellshill Scottish economists Scottish people of Irish descent Socio-economic mobility Economic historians Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Stanford University Department of Economics faculty University of Michigan faculty University of California, Davis faculty People educated at Holy Cross High School, Hamilton Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 21st-century American economists