The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth

By Joel Mokyr. Journal Economic History, 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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The Need for Open Source Software in Machine Learning (2007, background): “It is well documented how the move to an “open science” or “open source” model in the Age of Enlightenment (Schaffner, 1994) greatly increased the efficiency of the experimental scientific method (Kronick, 1962) and opened the way for the significant economic growth of the Industrial Revolution (Mok”
Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press (2011, background): “[57] —— , “The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (2005b), 285-351.”
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C. (2006, unknown): “…1982, p. 14), food canning to bacteriology and germ theory of disease (Rosenberg and Birdzell 1986, p. 245), Wright brothers to aerodynamics (Mokyr 2005, Mokyr 2002, pp. 96-97) Rosenberg 1982, p. 157), discovery of transistor to field of solid-state physics (Rosenberg 2000, p. 33),…”
Religious Competition and Reallocation: the Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation* (2017, background): “…both the reallocation of resources (particularly upper tail human capital) and the weakening of religious elites, might have set in motion a process of cultural and intellectual change that culminated in the enlightenment, the scientific revolution, and modern economic growth (Mokyr, 2005, 2017).”
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment (2015, unknown): “In line with our argument, these “were without doubt of interest to only a small minority” (Mokyr, 2005b, p.300). average worker skills, suppose that these enter productionin the standard labor-augmenting way.”
The role of human capital and innovation in economic development: evidence from post-Malthusian Prussia (2017, unknown): “Recently, some scholars have started to stress the importance of a few highly skilled craftsmen and entrepreneurs as engines of the First Industrial Revolution, while downplaying the importance of average levels of literacy (Galor and Moav, 2002; Mokyr, 2005; Mokyr and Voth, 2009).”