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

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ISBN 10: 0691157340 ISBN 13: 9780691157344

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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 Grįda, Rick Szostak, Carolyn Tuttle, Karine van der Beek, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Simone Wegge.

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L'autore:

Avner Greif is the Bowman Family Endowed Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Lynne Kiesling is associate professor of instruction in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. John V. C. Nye holds the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center and is professor of economics at George Mason University.

Contenuti:

Introduction 1
The Enlightened Economist
Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, & John V. C. Nye (Editors)
1 Neither Feast nor Famine 7
England before the Industrial Revolution
Cormac Ó'Grįda
2 Progress, Useful Knowledge , and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution 33
Joel Mokyr
I Institutions
3 Coercion and Exchange 71
How Did Markets Evolve?
Avner Greif
4 Meat Consumption in Nineteenth-Century New York 97
Quantity, Distribution, and Quality, or Notes on the “Antebellum Puzzle”
Gergely Baics
5 Funding Empire 129
Risk, Diversification, and the Underwriting of Early Modern Sovereign Loans
Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth
6 Establishing a New Order 149
The Growth of the State and the Decline of Witch Trials in France
Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama, and John V. C. Nye
II Innovation
7 Increasing Market Concentration in British Banking, 1885 to 1925 179
Fabio Braggion, Narly R.D. Dwarkasing, and Lyndon Moore
8 The Catapult of Riches 201
The Airplane as a Creative Macroinvention
Peter B. Meyer
9 England’s Eighteenth-Century Demand for High-Quality Workmanship 225
Evidence from Apprenticeship, 1710–1770
Karine van der Beek
10 A Growth Agenda for Economic History 245
Rick Szostak
III The Industrial Revolution
11 Amidst Poverty and Prejudice 277
Black and Irish Civil War Veterans
Hoyt Bleakley, Louis Cain, and Joseph Ferrie
12 How Britain Lost Its Competitive Edge 307
Competence in the Second Industrial Revolution
Ralf R. Meisenzahl
13 Regulating Child Labor 337
The European Experience
Carolyn Tuttle and Simone A. Wegge
14 Decomposing the Wage Gap 379
Within- and Between-Occupation Gender Wage Gaps at a Nineteenth-Century Textile Firm
Joyce Burnette
15 The Context of English Industrialization 397
Eric Jones
Contributors 411
Index 417

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0691157340
• ISBN 13: 9780691157344
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 430
• Redattore: Greif Avner, Kiesling Lynne, Nye John V. C.