Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development

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Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, John V. C. Nye
Princeton University Press, 2015 M01 4 - 430 páginas

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays address a host of core economic questions. What are the origins of markets? How do governments shape our economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning in pre–Civil War New York, aircraft manufacturing before World War I, and more. The book also features an essay that surveys Mokyr's important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the Industrial Revolution.

In addition to the editors, the contributors are Gergely Baics, Hoyt Bleakley, Fabio Braggion, Joyce Burnette, Louis Cain, Mauricio Drelichman, Narly Dwarkasing, Joseph Ferrie, Noel Johnson, Eric Jones, Mark Koyama, Ralf Meisenzahl, Peter Meyer, Joel Mokyr, Lyndon Moore, Cormac Ó Gráda, Rick Szostak, Carolyn Tuttle, Karine van der Beek, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Simone Wegge.

 

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IntroductIon
1
neItHer feast nor famIne
7
ProGress useful KnowledGe and tHe orIGIns
33
coercIon and excHanGe
71
meat consumPtIon In nIneteentHcentury new yorK
97
fundInG emPIre
129
establIsHInG a new order
149
IncreasInG marKet concentratIon
179
a GrowtH aGenda for economIc HIstory
245
amIdst Poverty and PreJudIce
277
How brItaIn lost Its comPetItIve edGe
307
reGulatInG cHIld labor
337
decomPosInG tHe waGe GaP
379
tHe context of enGlIsH IndustrIalIzatIon
397
contrIbutors
411
Index
417

tHe cataPult of rIcHes
201
enGlands eIGHteentHcentury demand
225

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