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Title A culture of growth : the origins of the modern economy / Joel Mokyr.
Publisher Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2017
Description 403 pages ; 24 cm


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 EI-Adult Collection  330 MOK Nearby on shelf  30626003094618 01-09-24  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: evolution, culture, and economic history. 1 culture and economics -- 2 nature and technology -- cultural evolution and evolution -- biases in cultural evolution -- Part II: cultural entrepreneurs and economic change 1500-1700. 6 cultural entrepreneurs and choice-based cultural evolution -- 7 francis bacon, cultural entrepreneur -- 8 isaac newton, cultural entrepreneur -- Part III: innovation, competition, and pluralism in europe, 1500-1700. 9 cultural choice in action: human capital and religion -- 10 cultural change and the growth of useful knowledge, 1500-1700 -- 11 fragmentation, competition, and cultural change -- 12 competition and the republic of letters -- Part IV: prelude to the enlightenment. 13 puritanism and british exceptionalism -- 14 a culture of progress -- 15 the enlightenment and economic change -- Part V: cultural change in the east and west. 16 china and europe -- 17 china and the enlightenment -- useful knowledge and economic growth.
Summary " The description for this book, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, will be forthcoming. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Economic development.
Economic history.
ISBN 9780691168883
0691168881