Add to ORKGWhat happened to make for the factor of 16 were new ideas, what Mokyr calls “industrial Enlightenment.” But the Scientific Revolution did not suffice. Non-Europeans like the Chinese outstripped the West in science until quite late. Britain did not lead in science---yet clearly did in technology. Indeed, applied technology depended on science only a little even in 1900
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
The issue of the emergence of Modern Economic growth in the nineteenth-century West has once again r...
The First Industrial Revolution began in England in about 1750–1760 that lasted to sometime between ...
What happened to make for the factor of 16 were new ideas, what Mokyr calls “industrial Enlightenmen...
Two centuries ago the world’s economy stood at the present level of Chad. Two centuries later the wo...
Britain was first, though the classical (and many of the neoclassical) economists did not recognize ...
Real national income per head in Britain rose by a factor of about 16 from the 18th century to the p...
No viable account of the rise of the modern world in 19th century Europe can do without an account o...
It is a materialist prejudice common in scholarship from 1890 to 1980 that economic results must hav...
An extreme materialist hypothesis explaining the Industrial Revolution would be simply genetic. Gre...
The Scientific Revolution represents a turning point in the history of humanity. Yet it remains ill-...
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
[Extract] From approximately 1770 to 1970, in a series of industrial revolutions, human standards of...
Why did the North-Sea folk suddenly get so rich, get so much cargo? The answers seems not to be tha...
While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Indu...
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
The issue of the emergence of Modern Economic growth in the nineteenth-century West has once again r...
The First Industrial Revolution began in England in about 1750–1760 that lasted to sometime between ...
What happened to make for the factor of 16 were new ideas, what Mokyr calls “industrial Enlightenmen...
Two centuries ago the world’s economy stood at the present level of Chad. Two centuries later the wo...
Britain was first, though the classical (and many of the neoclassical) economists did not recognize ...
Real national income per head in Britain rose by a factor of about 16 from the 18th century to the p...
No viable account of the rise of the modern world in 19th century Europe can do without an account o...
It is a materialist prejudice common in scholarship from 1890 to 1980 that economic results must hav...
An extreme materialist hypothesis explaining the Industrial Revolution would be simply genetic. Gre...
The Scientific Revolution represents a turning point in the history of humanity. Yet it remains ill-...
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
[Extract] From approximately 1770 to 1970, in a series of industrial revolutions, human standards of...
Why did the North-Sea folk suddenly get so rich, get so much cargo? The answers seems not to be tha...
While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for the Indu...
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
The issue of the emergence of Modern Economic growth in the nineteenth-century West has once again r...
The First Industrial Revolution began in England in about 1750–1760 that lasted to sometime between ...