Farewell To Alms

Gregory Clarke

The New World after the Neolithic Revolution offered economic success to a different kind of agent than had been typical in hunter-gatherer society: Those with patience, who could wait to enjoy greater consumption in the future. Thos who liked to work long hours. And those who could perform formal calculations in a world of many types of inputs and outputs…Thus it is plausible that through the long agrarian passage leading up to the Industrial Revolution man was becoming biologically better adapted to the modern economic world.