A Culture of Growth
The Origins of the Modern Economy
(Sprache: Englisch)
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is...
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During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to todays unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture - the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior - was a deciding factor in societal transformations.
Autoren-Porträt von Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, and Sackler Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. His many books include The Enlightened Economy and The Gifts of Athena (Princeton). He is the recipient of the Heineken Prize for History and the International Balzan Prize for Economic History.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joel Mokyr
- 2017, 400 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691168881
- ISBN-13: 9780691168883
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.11.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Mokyr's new masterpiece is a virtuoso display of how new thinking in economics can bring a deeper understanding of one of the most important events in human history. A Culture of Growth documents the cultural shifts that permitted the interrogation of nature that then flowered into scientific advances. This book offers us an optimistic vision: a great expansion of communication preceded our modern prosperity, and we can expect this to happen again."--Angus Deaton, 2015 Nobel Laureate in Economics
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