The Culture of Modern Capitalism (2009)
Technology and Culture - Volume 50, Number 2, April 2009
A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (review) (2009)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 39, Number 4, Spring 2009
I am indebted to Tom Geraghty for many valuable suggestions to Joerg (2007)
Joel Mokyr, Janice Kinghorn, Craig Riddell, Patricia Mokhtarian For, Helpful Information, ...
Prepared for the Carnegie-Rochester Conference on macroeconomics, Pittsburgh,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 36, Number 2, Autumn 2005
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 35, Number 1, Summer 2004
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System : the view from Economic History (2004)
The process of modern growth is different from the kind of growth experienced in Europe and the Orient before 1800 in that it is sustained. Whereas in the premodern past, growth spurts would always...
High Technology in the Low Countries: Geschiedenis van de Techniek in Nederland, 1800-1890 (2001)
Technology and Culture - Volume 42, Number 1, January 2001
Joel Mokyr, Craig Riddell, To Federico, Dario Gaggio, Robert J. Gordon, Lynne Kiesling, ...
this paper is to argue that this phenomenon was largely driven by technology, which determined both the relative costs and the benefits of moving people as opposed to moving information. These costs...
Does the "New Economy" Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past (2000)
Robert J. Gordon, Joel Mokyr, Jack Triplett
benefitted from discussions on these topics with many people, especially Erik
Leggere la rivoluzione industriale (1997)
Leggere la rivoluzione industriale, un bilancio storiografico, Joel Mokyr. . - Bologna. NALUAF000098, Il Mulino. NAEDAF002789, 1997.
The lever of riches : technological creativity and economic progress Joel Mokyr. (1990)
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Industrial growth and stagnation in the Low Couuntries, 1800-1850 /--by Joel Mokyr. (1974)
Microfilm of typescript. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1975. -- 1 reel ; 35 mm. -- ([University Microfilms. Publication] ; 75-15338)
Industrial growth and stagnation in the Low Couuntries, 1800-1850 /--by Joel Mokyr. (1974)
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Xerox University Microfilms, 1976. --21 cm.
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth.
Long Term Economic Growth, Economic History
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology
Mokyr, Joel, Philippe Aghion, Steven Durlauf
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...
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective
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...
In this monumental work, Vernon Ruttan has shared with us 30 years of study and research on the economics of technological change. The book covers an enormous literature, and each of its fourteen...
The standard literature on the contribution of institutions to the British Industrial Revolution has it that the British patent system made a substantial contribution to the success of British...
Alex Field is an eminent economic historian who has made important contributions to the field. In this book he shows the ambition and the erudition to venture into a wider area, and criticize the...
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion
I must admit from the onset that I cannot really be very critical of Massimo Livi-Bacci's work, because much if not most of what I know of historical demography I learned from him, and thus if I were...
The late J. M. Blaut, a geographer who passed away in November 2000, had a pet theory. Europe s political and economic domination of the rest of the world in the past four centuries or so was due to...
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth
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...
Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History
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...
Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution?
The concept of a new Industrial Revolution has recently become of great interest to general economists of all persuasions. For example, the New Growth Theory has placed renewed emphasis on the...
Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution?
The concept of a new Industrial Revolution has recently become of great interest to general economists of all persuasions. For example, the New Growth Theory has placed renewed emphasis on the...
Commentary : global demographic change : dimensions and economic significance
Economic conditions
Joel Mokyr is one of the world’s leading economic historians, known internationally for his numerous publications on the history of technology and the Industrial Revolution. He has also...
Distribution Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economics Growth in Britain
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...
In defence of generalized Darwinism
Howard Aldrich, Geoffrey Hodgson, David Hull, Thorbjørn Knudsen, Joel Mokyr, Viktor Vanberg
Socio-economic evolution, Generalized Darwinism, Selection, Replication, B52,
Why Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870 1945
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...
Why Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870 1945
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...
The standard literature on the contribution of institutions to the British Industrial Revolution has it that the British patent system made a substantial contribution to the success of British...
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790?1850
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...
Technological Inertia in Economic History
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...