TY - GEN
AU - Mokyr, Joel
TI - Chapter 17. Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology
SN - 9780444520432
SN - 0444520430
SN - 9780444520418
SN - 9780080461144
SN - 9780444508379
KW - Industrial Revolution
KW - economic growth
KW - technological progress
KW - access costs
KW - useful knowledge
PY - 2005
N2 - Modern economic growth started in the West in the early nineteenth century. This survey discusses the precise connection between the Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of growth, and connects it to the intellectual and economic factors underlying the growth of useful knowledge. The connections between science, technology and human capital are re-examined, and the role of the eighteenth century Enlightenment in bringing about modern growth is highlighted. Specifically, the paper argues that the Enlightenment changed the agenda of scientific research and deepened the connections between theory and practice.
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