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‘You know, Ernest, the rich are different from you and me’: a comment on Clark's A Farewell to Alms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

DEIRDRE N. MCCLOSKEY
DEIRDRE N. MCCLOSKEY*
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University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S. Morgan, Chicago IL 60607, USA, deirdre2@uic.edu
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The American novelist Scott Fitzgerald is supposed to have said once to Ernest Hemingway, ‘You know, the rich are different from you and me.’ Hemingway replied, ‘Yes. They've got more money.’ Gregory Clark is of the Fitzgerald school. Most economic historians, among them his critics, follow Hemingway instead.

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European Review of Economic History , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 2008 , pp. 138 - 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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