A culture of growth : the origins of the modern economy / Joel Mokyr
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TextSeries: Graz Schumpeter lecturesPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 403 pagesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691180960
- 330
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-379) and index.
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 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
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