J Mokyr - 1992 - books.google.com
In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity
is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than
others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in ...
J Mokyr - 2004 - books.google.com
The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the
overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now
often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution ...
J Mokyr - 1983 - getcited.org
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J Mokyr - The British Industrial Revolution: An …, 1999 - faculty.econ.northwestern.edu
In the past years, there have been more and more voices that claim, to rephrase Coleman
(1983), that the Industrial Revolution is" a concept too many." 2 The feeling is that the term is
either too vague to be of any use at all or that it produces false connotations of abrupt ...
J Mokyr - 1999 - nake.nl
It is not often contested whether there really did take place an industrial revolution or not.
There was a British industrial revolution, and it happened to be the Industrial RevЛ olution,
so it seems at least. This is the view also held by Joel Mokyr who notes that: what ...
J Mokyr - 1976 - getcited.org
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J Mokyr - Journal of Economic History, 1977 - JSTOR
It has been widely believed that demand elements, jointly with supply shifts, were crucial in
determining the timing, location, and general characteristics of the Industrial Revolution in
England and Continental Western Europe. The possible forms which the role of demand ...
[CITATION] The enlightened economy: An economic history of Britain, 1700-1850
J Mokyr - 2009 - Yale University Press
J Mokyr - Handbook of economic growth, 2005 - Elsevier
Abstract Modern economic growth started in the West in the early nineteenth century. This
survey discusses the precise connection between the Industrial Revolution and the
beginnings of growth, and connects it to the intellectual and economic factors underlying ...
J Mokyr - 1985 - books.google.com
The Economics of the Industrial Revolution Edited Joel Mokyr ... The Economics of the Industrial
Revolution This On. PK7C-L86-8QN8 ... The Economics of the Industrial Revolution Edited by
JOEL MOKYR Northwestern University Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
J Mokyr - Journal of Economic History, 1992 - Cambridge Univ Press
Technological progress depends for its success on a conducive social environment. The
resistance to innovation is identified as a central element governing the success of new
inventions. Such resistance usually takes the form of non-market processes. It consists of ...
J Mokyr - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
Charles Darwin and Alfred Marshall were both extremely influential men, whose influence
has waned somewhat in recent decades without diminishing in any sense their stature in
their respective disciplines. Marshall and Darwin shared a mutual interest in each other's ...
J Mokyr - Technological innovation as an evolutionary process, 2000 - dl.acm.org
... Evolutionary phenomena in technological change. Author: Joel Mokyr, Published in: · Book.
Technological innovation as an evolutionary process. ... top of page ABSTRACT. An abstract is not
available. top of page AUTHORS. Joel Mokyr No contact information provided yet.
J Mokyr - The Journal of Economic History, 2005 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract The intellectual origins of the Industrial Revolution are traced back to the Baconian
program of the seventeenth century, which aimed at expanding the set of useful knowledge
and applying natural philosophy to solve technological problems and bring about ...
J Mokyr - Bulletin of Economic Research, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that biology, and not physics, ought to inspire the science of economics has a long
and venerable history, although not much seems to have been done about it, at least not
until recently.'In particular, the application of the theory of Darwinian evolution to the ...
[CITATION] The industrial revolution and the new economic history
J Mokyr - The economics of the industrial …, 1985 - Lanham, MD: Rowman and …
J Mokyr - Journal of Economic History, 1988 - Cambridge Univ Press
Recent research on the standard-of-living controversy has argued that a marked
improvement in the economic well-being of British workers began shortly after 1815 and
continued unabated until 1850. I test that new optimism by generating a synthetic annual" ...
HE Aldrich, GM Hodgson, DL Hull… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Darwin himself suggested the idea of generalizing the core Darwinian principles to
cover the evolution of social entities. Also in the nineteenth century, influential social
scientists proposed their extension to political society and economic institutions. ...
J Mokyr - Journal of Economic History, 2000 - Cambridge Univ Press
It is widely agreed that the burden of housework in the industrialized West did not decrease
as much as might be expected since 1880, and may have actually increased for long
periods. The article proposes a new explanation: that increases in knowledge on the ...
J Mokyr… - The Economic History Review, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
By JOEL MOKYR and CORMAC 0 GRADA he definition of the 'unit'of analysis in economic
history is usually T determined by politics. The economic history of France for example is
written in terms of the modern political 'hexagon', and regional history in general in terms ...
J Mokyr - Explorations in Economic History, 1987 - ideas.repec.org
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J Mokyr… - The Economic History Review, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
By JOEL MOKYR and CORMAC 0 GRADA ith the publication of Wrigley and Schofield's
Population History W England joins France and Quebec in having a comprehensive
precensal population history based on family reconstitution methods and samples of local ...
J Mokyr - ECONOMIC REVIEW-FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF …, 1997 - kc.frb.org
Iam an economic historian, part economist and part historian. To some, economists are
funny. Historians do not appear to be as funny as economists. But at times one can find a
good characterization of what historians do. A good metaphor of what economic history is ...
J Mokyr… - 1982 - irserver.ucd.ie
Abstract: Emigration was a crucial element in Irish population change during the half century
before the Great Famine. The size and composition of the outward flow worried some, and
caused considerable debate. Majority opinion held that emigration was likely to benefit ...
J Mokyr - Technological Revolutions in Europe, 1997 - fsalazar.bizland.com
If technology is one of the prime movers of economic growth, how exactly are technological
decisions made? A technological decision is taken whenever a new technique is proffered,
and firms have to decide whether to adopt it or not. It might seem that in the vast majority of ...
J Mokyr… - 1996 - nber.org
The rise in life expectancy, in particular the decline in infant mortality, remains one of the
most impressive achievements of modern technology. Much of this progress was made
before 1914 and long before the advent of modem antibiotics. This paper proposes that ...
J Mokyr… - 1990 - books.google.com
One of the most pervasive and pernicious half-truths economists teach their students is the
hackneyed aphorism that there is no such thing as a free lunch. It is the purpose of this
essay to highlight the greatest counterexample to this statement. 1 Economic History is full ...
[CITATION] Stagflation in historical perspective: the Napoleonic wars revisited
J Mokyr… - Research in Economic History, 1976
J Mokyr - Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public …, 2001 - Elsevier
The factory system, which arose with the British Industrial Revolution, was responsible for
bringing about the separation of the location of consumption (the household) and that of
production (the plant or office). This separation has had large effects on economic welfare. ...
J Mokyr - The economic history of Britain since, 1994 - books.google.com
The acceleration of technological and economic changes that took place after about 1760 is
collectively known as the industrial revolution. Changing technology is a tortuous, in some
views even insidious, thing: it often takes place in out-of-the-way small workshops and ...
J Mokyr - The Journal of Economic History, 1974 - JSTOR
The comparative method will accomplish great things.... The historical specialist asks for a
method which is a technical instrument, generally used, easily manageable and capable of
giving positive results. The comparative method is precisely such an instrument.... I ...
J Mokyr - 2003 - econpapers.repec.org
It is difficult to understand history or the conditions of modern society without a strong grasp
of the economic past. Time and again, historic change is wrought by an underlying
economic dynamic. For instance, what were the economic roots of modern industrialism? ...
[CITATION] Evolution and technological change: a new metaphor for economic history
J Mokyr - Technological change, 1996 - Harwood Publishers, London
J Mokyr - A Not-So-Dismal Science. A Broader View …, 2000 - faculty.econ.northwestern.edu
Abstract: This paper takes another look at the reasons and effects of technological inertia.
Resistance to technological change is often regarded as regressive and socially costly,
caused by distributional coalitions defending their turf and preserving their rents. While ...
J Mokyr - Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1998 - Springer
The motivation for this project is derived from my amazement that changes in human
knowledge have been so little analyzed in the economic history literature. For most relevant
problems, we tend to assume that knowledge is given and should be regarded, insofar ...
J Mokyr - Explorations in Economic History, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the records of over 85,000 recruits from the British Isles serving in the
East India Army between 1802 and 1860. It computes average heights corrected for age,
occupational status, and place of origin. The main finding is that the height data provide ...
J Mokyr - 1978 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Innovation in an historical perspective: Tales of technology and evolution
J Mokyr - Technological Innovation & Economic Performance, 2002
[CITATION] Urbanization, technological progress, and economic history
J Mokyr - Urban agglomeration and economic growth, 1995
J Mokyr - 2000 - books.google.com
Abstract: This paper takes a look at the events leading to the British Industrial Revolution
and renews the argument that a theory of useful knowledge is required to fully understand
the timing of the event as well as the reasons why it did not peter out after a few decades ...
J Mokyr - De Economist, 2000 - Springer
Why was the Netherlands not a leader in the first Industrial Revolution (1760-1830) despite
its advanced economy in the eighteenth century? This paper argues that the Industrial
Revolution in its early stages required a close cooperation between knowledge of nature ...
J Mokyr - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
The economic history of modern Europe between 1750 and 1914 contains two large but
largely disjoint literatures: one dealing with technological change and the Industrial
Revolution, the other dealing with the decline of mortality and the emergence of a new ...
J Mokyr - Research Policy, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper concerns the interaction between technological creativity and political
competition. The paper is based on the observation that technological progress encounters
resistance from various groups that believe they stand to lose from innovation. These ...
J Mokyr… - The Cambridge Economic History of Modern …, 2010 - books.google.com
Incomes of ordinary citizens in developed countries today dwarf those enjoyed even by the
wealthy elite during most of mankind's history. John Maynard Keynes, with slight incredulity,
observed in 1930 that the economic problem of mankind (in Europe and North America at ...
J Mokyr - Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge …, 2006 - books.google.com
In this chapter I propose to summarize and extend an argument made in a number of other
papers (Mokyr, 2005a, 2005b, 2005c). The issue at stake is a variant of the 'European
Miracle'question. Despite the resentment in certain circles against the questions ...
J Mokyr - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
There is a growing consensus that in all cases of successful and unsuccessful economic
growth, institutions mattered (Elhanan Helpman 2008; Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson,
and James Robinson 2005). Somewhat oddly, little detailed research has been done to ...
J Mokyr… - Southern Economic Journal, 2007 - JSTOR
From the late 1600s to the mid 1800s, Britain was able to transform from a divided kingdom
with a fragmented, often stagnant economy into a powerful and stable state that
simultaneously saw an expansion in the power, wealth, and stability of the central ...
J Mokyr - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1980 - JSTOR
the Netherlands A comparative study of Ireland and the Netherlands in the first half of the
nineteenth century may appear far-fetched. The differences seem overwhelming.
Economically, the Netherlands, although long past its glorious golden age, was still a ...
J Mokyr… - … in Anthropometric History. The University of …, 1994 - books.google.com
Just when it seemed as though the venerable standard-of-living debate was running out of
steam, it has become the subject of new approaches. The traditional focus on British wage
and consumption series during the Industrial Revolution (c. 1780-1840) has been ...
SJ DeCanio… - Explorations in Economic History, 1977 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper examines the role of inflation in financing the American Civil War, and
the effects of that inflation on the level of real wages in the North. A wage determination
model is specified in which the equilibrium real wage is determined by real forces and the ...
J Mokyr… - European Review of Economic …, 2002 - ereh.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract The Irish Famine killed over a million people who would not have died otherwise.
The nosologies published by the 1851 Irish census provide a rich source for the causes of
death during these catastrophic years. This source is extremely rich and detailed, but also ...
[CITATION] Progress and inertia in technological change
J Mokyr - Capitalism in Context: Essays in honor of RM, 1994
J Mokyr - 1998 - opengrey.eu
Science, Technology, and Knowledge: what Historians Can Learn from an Evolutionary Approach.
Joel Mokyr Max-Planck-Inst. for Research into Economic Systems, 1998.
[CITATION] Is economic change optimal?
J Mokyr - Australian Economic History Review, 1992
J Mokyr - Explorations in economic history, 1976 - ideas.repec.org
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J Mokyr - Storia dell'economia Mondiale, 1998 - faculty.econ.northwestern.edu
The second Industrial Revolution is usually dated between 1870 and 1914, although a
number of its characteristic events can be dated to the 1850s. It is, however, clear that the
rapid rate of pathbreaking inventions (macroinventions) slowed down after 1825, and ...
J Mokyr - Institutions and economic performance, 2008 - books.google.com
The new institutional economics has, so far, had little to say about the Industrial Revolution.
In their survey of institutions and modern growth, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2005)
acknowledge eighteenth-century Britain as a successful economy and, much like North ...
J Mokyr - Supreme Court Economic Review, 2003 - JSTOR
In this paper, I link the economic growth of the West in the past two centuries with the
Industrial Revolution, and search for the underlying causes of technological progress. It is
argued that we cannot understand modern economic growth unless we realize that ...
J Mokyr - Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and …, 1991 - books.google.com
What was the relation between income distribution and the Industrial Revolution?'Before we
turn to that question, it is worthwhile to ask whether the concept of an industrial revolution is
not too narrow for its subject. Some recent writing seems to suggest that the term has ...
J Mokyr - The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain, 2004 - books.google.com
How do we account for the Industrial Revolution? 1 In recent years, economic historians
have had to redefine what they mean by the industrial revolution and to reassess its
significance. On the one hand, the findings published in the 1990s by Crafts, Harley ( ...
J Mokyr - Eli Heckscher, international trade, and economic …, 2006 - books.google.com
Economic historians will insist on claiming Eli Heckscher as one of their own. His magisterial
Mercantilism bears every sign of the true economic historian: a reliance on the sources, a
clear and analytic framework, a good ''nose''for asking the right questions, and an ...
J Mokyr - Technological Innovation as an …, 2000 - faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu
1 Introduction. Alfred Marshall's ([1890] 1930, p. xiv) famous exhortation that the Mecca of
the economist lies in economic biology rather than in economic dynamics and Frank Hahn's
(1991) more recent prediction that economics will return to its affinities to biology has ...
[CITATION] The Lever ofRiches
J Mokyr - Technological Creativity and, 1990
[CITATION] Why was there more work for mother? Technological change and the household, 1880-1930
J Mokyr - Journal of Economic History, 2000
J Mokyr - Economy as an evolving complex system, 3, 2006 - books.google.com
“Knowledge” has become fashionable again. Books and articles with the word, preferably
paired with “economy” and “growth” are coming out in droves. In his collection Essays in the
Theory of Risk Bearing [2], Ken Arrow used the term extensively, long before the return of ...
DS Landes, J Mokyr… - 2010 - books.google.com
Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their
innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The
Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to ...
J Mokyr - Journal of Economic History, 1980 - Cambridge Univ Press
Malthusian models occupy a central position in the interpretation and analysis of long-term
economic and demographic change in preindustrial societies. The models are logically
plausible and attractive, but ultimately they will have to be confronted with systematic ...
J Mokyr - The American Historical Review, 1999 - JSTOR
THE QUESTION OF THE RISE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION to economic and technological
domination continues to fascinate scholars and, judging from the huge publicity surrounding
the publication of David S. Landes's new book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why ...
J Mokyr… - Papers, 1999 - ideas.repec.org
It is commonplace to observe that one of the great changes of the modern age is not only
that life expectancy is much longer than a century or two ago, but that there has been a
radical change in the causes of death. Even in the nineteenth century, infectious disease ...
[CITATION] Mobility, Creativity, and Technological Development: David Hume, Immanuel Kant and the Economic Development of Europe
J Mokyr - Northwestern University, unpublished manuscipt, 2005
[CITATION] Invention and rebellion: why do innovations occur at all? an evolutionary approach
J Mokyr - Minorities and Economic Growth. Amsterdam: Elsevier …, 1999
[CITATION] Uncertainty and prefamine Irish agriculture
J Mokyr - Ireland and Scotland, 1983
[CITATION] The lever of riches: technological creativity and technological progress
J Mokyr - 1990 - Oxford University Press
J Mokyr - Northwestern University, unpublished …, 2002 - faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu
Eric Jones's European Miracle was published over twenty years ago. It was not the first, and
certainly not the last work to raise the difficult questions of European exceptionalism, yet it
seems to have attracted the most attention and has been made into the whipping boy of ...
J Mokyr - The Invention of Entreprise: Entrepreneurship from …, 2010 - books.google.com
THE" NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY" has had little patience with entrepreneurial explanations
of major economic developments. Ever since the emergence of a cliometric literature on the
economic history of modern Britain in the 1970s, economic historians trained in ...
[CITATION] Successful Small Open Economies and the Importance of Good Institutions
J Mokyr - The Road to Prosperity: An Economic History of …, 2006 - SKS Helsinki
[CITATION] Industrial revolution
J Mokyr - Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003
[CITATION] King Kong and Cold Fusion: Counterfactual Analysis and the History of Technology
J Mokyr - Counterfactual Analysis in History and the Social …, 2002
[CITATION] Was There a British Industrial Evolution?
J Mokyr - The Vital One: Essays Presented to Jonathan RT …, 1991
J Mokyr - Journal of economic literature, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This essay reviews and criticizes Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History and
places it in the context of evolutionary economics. Vermeij presents a natural history written
in what he considers economic terms and argues that biologists should know more about ...
J Mokyr - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2001 - ideas.repec.org
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J Mokyr - 2007 - books.google.com
The issue of the emergence of modern economic growth in the nineteenth-century West has
once again resumed its rightful place at the center of attention of a large group of scholars,
coming from economics, history, and the other social sciences. While different approaches ...
J Mokyr - Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische …, 2007 - dejongeakademie.nl
The roots of European economic growth in the nineteenth century must be seen in its
intellectual background as well as in its economic environment. The closer interactions
between different kinds of useful knowledge were prompted by the Enlightenment as, ...
[CITATION] The gifts of Athena: historical origins of the knowledge society
J Mokyr - 2002 - Princeton: Princeton University …
E Hoffman… - Discussion Papers, 1981 - ideas.repec.org
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J Mokyr - Mokyr, J.: Neither Chance nor Necessity: …, 1996 - rieteh.fudan.edu.cn
Introduction In recent years, there has been a veritable flurry of literature dealing with the
application of evolutionary models to technological change, both theoretical contributions
and investigations of a more historical nature. The adaptationist view considering ...
E Buyst… - Economic effects of the French Revolutionary …, 1990 - lirias.kuleuven.be
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J Mokyr - The evolutionary foundations of economics, 2005 - books.google.com
Is there a theory of economic history? More than thirty years ago this question was posed in
John Hicks' Theory of Economic History (1969). Hicks noted that very few scholars have
even ventured to answer the question. Looking at those who have since the heady days of ...
[CITATION] The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective (Boulder, Col
J Mokyr - 1993 - Westview Press
J Mokyr - 2006 - socionet.ru
Modern economic growth started in the West in the early nineteenth century. This survey discusses
the precise connection between the Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of growth, and
connects it to the intellectual and economic factors underlying the growth of useful ...
[CITATION] Why Ireland Starved: An Analytical and Quantitative History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850
J Mokyr - 1985 - London: Allen and Unwin
[CITATION] The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Growth
J Mokyr - 1990 - Oxford
J Mokyr… - Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 1989 - JSTOR
Fr HIS NOTE USES INFORMATION ON THE HEIGHTS of about one 1 thousand men
recruited on behalf of the East India Company for service in India in the late 1770s and early
1780s as a basis for an estimate of the mean height of the population from which they ...
[CITATION] The British industrial revolution: an economic perspective. Boulder
J Mokyr - 1993 - Westview Press
[CITATION] The Levers of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress Oxford University Press
J Mokyr - New York, 1990
J Mokyr - Paper for the Macalester College …, 2002 - faculty.econ.northwestern.edu
Economics, Oscar Wilde is reputed to have said, is so easy that even a parrot could learn it
by mindlessly repeating the words “demand and supply.” But as all econ majors know, the
seemingly simple diagram can actually lead to some rather hairy problems with ...
[CITATION] Capital, Labor and the Delay of the Industrial Revolution in the Netherlands
J Mokyr - Economisch en Sociaal-Historische Jaarboek, 1975
J Mokyr - xerox (Northwestern University, …, 1998 - faculty.econ.northwestern.edu
This paper makes two related points. The first is the rather commonplace observation that
what people “know”--that is, believe to be true about the natural world--affects the efficacy
with which they manipulate their physical environment and thus their material well-being. ...
[CITATION] Progress and inertia in technological change, chapter 8
J Mokyr - 1994 - The University of Chicago Press
[CITATION] Institutions Technological Creativity and Economic History
J Mokyr - Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth. Springer …, 1994
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