The Lever of Riches

Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

Joel Mokyr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

1992
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-507477-2 (ISBN)

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A study of the value and meaning of technological advance. The author considers how past physical and social conditions have influenced the development and reception of new ideas, and shows how these trends can guide future industrial strategies as more countries compete for technical ingenuity.

Why are some nations more technically creative than others and why do some highly innovative societies eventually stagnate? In this provocative study of the value and meaning of technological advance, Joel Mokyr considers how past physical and social conditions have influenced the development and reception of new ideas, and shows how these trends can guide future industrial strategies at a time when more countries than ever before are competing for the rewards of technical ingenuity.

Joel Mokyr is Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University, and is the author of Why Ireland Starved, The Economics of the Industrial Revolution, and other books in economic history.

Part I: Introduction; Part II: Classical antiquity; The Middle Ages; The Renaissance and beyond; The years of miracles: the Industrial Revolution; The later Nineteenth century; Part III: Understanding technological progress; Classical and medieval technology; China and Europe; The industrial revolution: Britain and Europe; Part IV: Evolution and the dynamics of technological change

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.1992
Zusatzinfo	numerous halftone and line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	202 x 135 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-19-507477-7 / 0195074777
ISBN-13	978-0-19-507477-2 / 9780195074772
Zustand	Neuware