Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization
Title | Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization PDF eBook |
Author | Avner Greif |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2020-05-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691202737 |
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.
Economics of Industrialization
Title | Economics of Industrialization PDF eBook |
Author | Kedarnath Prasad |
Publisher | Sarup & Sons |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Industrialization |
ISBN | 9788176255356 |
With reference to Bihar State, India.
Making Of An Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret Of Rapid Industrialization
Title | Making Of An Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret Of Rapid Industrialization PDF eBook |
Author | Yi Wen |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-05-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9814733741 |
The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of economic development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions, is highly inadequate in explaining China's rise. This book argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (as incorrectly portrayed by the institutional theory) can fully explain China's growth miracle and why the determined rise of China is unstoppable despite its current 'backward' financial system and political institutions. Conversely, China's spectacular and rapid transformation from an impoverished agrarian society to a formidable industrial superpower sheds considerable light on the fundamental shortcomings of the institutional theory and mainstream 'blackboard' economic models, and provides more-accurate reevaluations of historical episodes such as Africa's enduring poverty trap despite radical political and economic reforms, Latin America's lost decades and frequent debt crises, 19th century Europe's great escape from the Malthusian trap, and the Industrial Revolution itself.
An Economic History of Regional Industrialization
Title | An Economic History of Regional Industrialization PDF eBook |
Author | Bas van Leeuwen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2020-10-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0429513550 |
This book offers a comprehensive study of regional industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth century to the present. Using case studies on regional industrialization, the book provides insights into similarities and differences in industrialization processes between European, Eurasian and Asian countries. Important factors include the transition from traditional to modern industrial production, industrial policy, agglomeration forces, market integration, and the determinants of industrial location over time. The book is an invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic history, political history, economic geography, and economics while contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and globalization.
The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Mokyr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2018-07-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136668438 |
In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have sought to resolve some of the controversies surrounding this topic. First published in 1985, this collection contains ten key essays written by leading economists on the subject of the Industrial Revolution. Among the questions discussed are the causes for the pre-eminence of Britain, the roles of the inputs for growth (capital, labor, technical progress), the importance of demand factors, the relation between agricultural progress and the Industrial Revolution, and the standard of living debate. The essays demonstrate that the application of fresh viewpoints to the literature has given us a considerable new body of data at our disposal, making it possible to test commonly held hypotheses. In addition, this new data has enabled economists to apply a more rigorous logic to the thinking about the Industrial Revolution, thus sharpening many issues heretofore blurred by slipshod methodology and internal inconsistencies.
The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth
Title | The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth PDF eBook |
Author | R. M. Hartwell |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2017-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351696955 |
This volume, first published in 1971, brings together eleven essays and articles on the history of the industrial revolution. Method is the central consideration, and the author discusses ways in which historians have analysed the industrial revolution, demonstrates inconsistency and bias in their interpretations, and suggests an appropriate framework of economic theory for future studies. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Allen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2011-09-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199596654 |
Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.