On another ongoing crisis, however, authorities and thinkers were less eager to take up the challenge and, in sharp contrast to the progression of liberties in Europe and North America, the suppression of human labour in the form of slavery was often justified....
摘要:I study a sample of 482 English inland bills of exchange (where all parties to the bill were in England) during the period 1762-1850. Inland bills were used as a medium of exchange during the Industrial Revolution in the north of England. During this period, they circulated via indors...
Cambridge Economic History of ModernBritain, 2 volumes. - Allen, R. C.(2009), The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge. -Mokyr, J. (2016), A Culture of Growth: the Origins of the Modern Economy,Princeton.
‘creative activity’ as an input-output technology that is both useful for and conditioned by economic development. It concludes by contrasting the Industrial Revolution in Britain with the ICT revolution in the US for their different effects of successful innovations on life creativity and well-...
Much of the progress of the past couple of centuries has been due to automation of many tasks, making things such as food, clothing, computers, etc. cheaper than pre-industrial people could imagine. But the production of new human minds has not at all been automated in a similar fashion,...
That’s when Norberg points out that Sweden today would be as poor as Albania if there had been 1-percentage point slower growth during the free-market period (I assume beginning in 1870) when Sweden began to get rich. To confirm this assertion, I went to the Maddison database and did ...
Health, "Illth," and Economic Growth Medicine, Environment, and Economics at the Crossroads Economic growth has been the single biggest contributor to population health since the Industrial Revolution. The growth paradigm, by definition, is dynami... G Egger - 《American Journal of Preventive Medici...
we may compare the number of university graduates of business schools (who almost certainly have studied microeconomics) with the number of graduates from economics departments (who almost certainly have studied macroeconomics). In the USA in the academic year 1995–1996, for example, there were 13...
As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution How can we best understand the impact of revolutionary technologies on the business cycle, the economy, and society? Why is economics meaningless without h... C Freeman,F Louca - 《Academy of Management Review》 被...
With the advent of the industrial revolution, capitalism emerged and is defined as a system of production where business owners organize resources including tools, workers, and raw materials to produce goods for market consumption and earn profits. Supply and demand set prices in markets in a way...