The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy

By Joel Mokyr. 2002

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Does Innovation Cause Stock Market Runups? Evidence from the Great Crash (2008, background): “Hermann Staudinger’s early 1920s discoveries in macromolecular chemistry revolutionized product development in a range of industries, and especially at DuPont where 1920s R&D led to the introduction of nylon and neoprene (David Hounshell and John Kenly Smith Jr. 1988; Mokyr 2002, 109).”
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (2017, neutral): “A final factor we do not consider in detail is the importance of changing cultural values and beliefs as emphasized by Mokyr (2002, 2009).”
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology (2005, background): “One specific example of an area in which technological innovation and institutional change interacted in this fashion was in the resistance of vested interests to new technology (Mokyr, 1994, 2002).”
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment (2015, neutral): “This period saw the emergence of the knowledge economy, and the Encyclopédie was at its forefront (Mokyr, 2002).”
Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test of the Role of Printing in the Reformation (2014, background): “Many economists have pointed to at least one of these events as sparking the economic ‘‘rise of the West’’ (Weber, 1905; Tawney, 1926; Pomeranz, 2000; Mokyr, 1990, 2002; Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson, 2001, 2005; Greif, 2006; Becker & Wössmann, 2008, 2009; Iyigun, 2008; Buringh & van Zanden, 2009;…”
The relationships between science, technologies and their industrial exploitation: An illustration through the myths and realities of the so-called ‘European Paradox’ (2006, background): “Having said that, it is also the case that since the Industrial Revolution, the relative contribution of science to technology has been increasing and its impact has become more and more pervasive, while the rates of innovation have often been shaped by the strength of the science base from which th”
Das Human Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure (2004, background): “Furthermore, science and its application in technology gained prominence (Mokyr, 1990, 2002).”
R/D, Implementation, and Stagnation: A Schumpeterian Theory of Convergence Clubs (2005, neutral): “See Jacob (1997) and Mokyr (2002).”
Measuring the knowledge base of an economy in terms of triple-helix relations among 'technology, organization, and territory' (2004, background): “One would expect high-tech sectors to ‘deepen and tighten’ the knowledge base of the systems in which they operate (Mokyr, 2002).”
Coal and the European Industrial Revolution (2014, background): “First, the increased use of coal was a symptom of technological change, which all authors accept was the main driver of the Industrial Revolution, and which has been the focus of a series of major works by Mokyr (1990, 2002, 2009).”
Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science (2018, background): “As argued by many scholars (e.g. Arrow, 1962, Mokyr, 2002), one of the major inputs in the creation of new ideas is existing knowledge.”