A Culture of Growth : : The Origins of the Modern Economy / / Joel Mokyr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Mokyr, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
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Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring 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 remain...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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
• Chapter 5. Biases in Cultural Evolution
• Part II. Cultural Entrepreneurs and Economic Change, 1500-1700
• Chapter 6. Cultural Entrepreneurs and Choice-based Cultural Evolution
• Chapter 7. Francis Bacon, Cultural Entrepreneur
• Chapter 8. Isaac Newton, Cultural Entrepreneur
• Part III. Innovation, Competition, and Pluralism in Europe, 1500-1700
• Chapter 9. Cultural Choice in Action: Human Capital and Religion
• Chapter 10. Cultural Change and the Growth of Useful Knowledge, 1500-1700
• Chapter 11. Fragmentation, Competition, and Cultural Change
• Chapter 12. Competition and the Republic of Letters
• 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
• Chapter 17. China and the Enlightenment
• Epilogue. Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth
• References
• Index