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A Culture of Growth : = the Origins of the Modern Economy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Culture of Growth :/ Joel Mokyr.
Reminder of title:	the Origins of the Modern Economy /
Author:	Mokyr, Joel
Description:	1 online resource (418 pages)
Subject:	Economic development -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0005978.html
ISBN:	9781400882915

A Culture of Growth : = the Origins of the Modern Economy /
Mokyr, Joel

A Culture of Growth :the Origins of the Modern Economy /Joel Mokyr. - 1 online resource (418 pages) - The Graz Schumpeter lectures. - Graz Schumpeter lectures.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-379) and index

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Part I: Evolution, Culture, and Economic History ; Chapter 1: Culture and Economics ; Chapter 2: Nature and Technology ; Chapter 3: Cultural Evolution and Economics ; Chapter 4: Choice-based Cultural Evolution

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 today's 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

ISBN: 9781400882915Subjects--Topical Terms:

576313
Economic development
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: HD75.M65 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 330

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505 8 $a Part III: Innovation, Competition, and Pluralism in Europe,
505 8 $a Part IV: Prelude to the Enlightenment Chapter 13: Puritanism and British Exceptionalism ; Chapter 14: A Culture of Progress ; Chapter 15: The Enlightenment and Economic Change ; Part V: Cultural Change in the East and West ; Chapter 16: China and Europe
505 8 $a Chapter 17: China and the Enlightenment Epilogue: Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth ; References ; Index
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