Joel Mokyr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 977366 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joel Mokyr |
| NOMBRES | Joel |
| APELLIDO | Mokyr |
| FIRMA | MOKYR J |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 441 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Economic progress and its discontents
Social organizations and political institutions
This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that s…
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution
Although there are many competing explanations for the Industrial Revolution, there has been no effort to evaluate them econometrically. This paper analyzes how the very different patterns of growth across the counties of England between the 1760s and 1830s can be explained by a wide range of potential variables. We find that industrialization occurred in areas that began with low wages but high mechanical skills, whereas other variables, such as…
The Wheels of Change
This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and industrialisation. We argue that mechanical skills and competence were a main determinant of the location of industry on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. It concentrates on the case of millwrights, eighteenth-century specialists in advanced carpentry and hydraulic machinery. Millwrights were a key part of the upper tail of the distributio…
A Culture of Growth
The past and the future of innovation
A Culture of Growth
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution
We use annual information on apprenticeships in England between 1710-1805 to estimate the dynamic supply-responsiveness in this market in the presence of the increasingly powerful technological shocks as the Industrial Revolution proceeded apace. Using both an Instrumental Variable method and a dynamic Vector Autoregression framework (VAR) system to identify the long-run response functions, we find evidence of an elastic supply, sufficiently high…
A Culture of Growth
A culture of growth the origins of the modern economy
"During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today’s unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebra…
Peer Vries's Great Divergence
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth
Technology is widely considered the main source of economic progress, but it has also generated cultural anxiety throughout history. The developed world is now suffering from another bout of such angst. Anxieties over technology can take on several forms, and we focus on three of the most prominent concerns. First, there is the concern that technological progress will cause widespread substitution of machines for labor, which in turn could lead t…
Capitalism Reinvents Itself
The economics of a world of information and automation is radically different from that of a world of wheat, steel, and railroads
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth
The concept of entrepreneur is a central one in economic history. The definition of entrepreneur is extended here to include ‘cultural entrepreneurs’ and show how they can be integrated into the new modern economic interpretation of ‘culture’ as agents who change the beliefs of others. This concept can help us understand one of the central dilemmas of modern economic history, namely how the new institutional economic history can be deployed to un…
Why Ireland Starved
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains …
Invention of Enterprise
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700–1870
Заёмный труд -термин, принятый в русскоязычной литературе, является прямым переводом с нем.Leiharbeit.В англоязычной литературе применяются термины «лизинговый труд» или «агентский труд» (labor leasing, agency work).Мы будем использовать названные термины как синонимы.2 К заёмным работникам не относятся люди творческих профессий, индустрии развлечений и спорта, работающие с агентами (актёры, музыканты, спортсмены и
The Gifts of Athena
Но это в большей степени институциональный вызов...-Можно сказать и так.Это вопрос о том, каким образом отстраиваются дисциплины и передаются предпосылки и методы.Какие механизмы стоят за этим процессом?Я имею в виду то, что всё меньше и меньше людей вовлечены в воспитание нового поколения исследователей, продолжающих их работу.Долгое время я думал, что верным решением будет убедить деканов бизнес-школ субсидировать факультеты социологии.(Смеётся…
The Gifts of Athena
The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena , Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the grow…
The Economics of Being Jewish
In his Capitalism and the Jews, Jerry Z. Muller discusses the relationship between Jews and "usury"; explains how Jews have benefitted from capitalism; argues that most Jews are not on the left; and describes the relationship between Jews and nationalism. In covering this much ground in so compact a book, he naturally leaves out a great deal, such as the importance of ideology in issues of determining Jewish economic savoir faire, and why, despit…
The Birth of Modern Europe
It seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. With his rejection of traditional models that left pre-industrial Europe with little to no role to play in modern development, de Vries’ work has laid claim to the rich significance of the early modern period as the birth of the contemporary West. Culminating in The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Eco…
The Invention of Enterprise
Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneur…
Birth of Modern Europe
Stagflation in Historical Perspective
Secular stagnation? Not in your life
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth
Technology is widely considered the main source of economic progress, but it has also generated cultural anxiety throughout history. The developed world is now suffering from another bout of such angst. Anxieties over technology can take on several forms, and we focus on three of the most prominent concerns. First, there is the concern that technological progress will cause widespread substitution of machines for labor, which in turn could lead t…
Why Ireland Starved
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains …
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth
The intellectual origins of the Industrial Revolution are traced back to the Baconian program of the seventeenth century, which aimed at expanding the set of useful knowledge and applying natural philosophy to solve technological problems and bring about economic growth. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the West carried out this program through a series of institutional developments that both increased the amount of knowledge and its acces…
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850
Recent research on the standard-of-living controversy has argued that a marked improvement in the economic well-being of British workers began shortly after 1815 and continued unabated until 1850. I test that new optimism by generating a synthetic annual “standard-of-living variable” for the period 1790 to 1850. The variable is based on estimating a relation between living standards and the consumption of some key commodities for 1855 to 1900 and…
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson
Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland
New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850
For many years Kenneth Connells classic Population of Ireland has been a major source of inspiration to historians and demographers. The resulting research which has either elaborated or criticized Connells work is the subject of this survey. An explanation of the logic underlying recent revisions of Connells often quoted pre-censal estimates is followed by a reassessment of the role of shifts in fertility mortality and emigration in accounting f…
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution
It has been widely believed that demand elements, jointly with supply shifts, were crucial in determining the timing, location, and general characteristics of the Industrial Revolution in England and Continental Western Europe. The possible forms which the role of demand might have taken are specified and examined both theoretically and empirically. While demand factors cannot be ruled out altogether, they were definitely of a secondary order of …
Technological Inertia in Economic History
Technological progress depends for its success on a conducive social environment. The resistance to innovation is identified as a central element governing the success of new inventions. Such resistance usually takes the form of non-market processes. It consists of vested interests, whose assets are jeopardized by new techniques, as well as by intellectuals who are opposed to new technology on principle. The role of resistance in the British and …
Poor and Getting Poorer? Living Standards in Ireland before the Famine
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution
Although there are many competing explanations for the Industrial Revolution, there has been no effort to evaluate them econometrically. This paper analyzes how the very different patterns of growth across the counties of England between the 1760s and 1830s can be explained by a wide range of potential variables. We find that industrialization occurred in areas that began with low wages but high mechanical skills, whereas other variables, such as…
The Gifts of Athena
The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena , Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the grow…
The Lever of Riches
Journal Article The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress Get access The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By JOEL MOKYR. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 349. US$24.95 hardback. ISBN o 19 506113 6.)Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change: An Historical Survey. By JOEL MOKYR. (Chur, London and New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990. Pp. viii+142. US$3…
Why Ireland Starved
Irish History with the Potato
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution
We use annual information on apprenticeships in England between 1710-1805 to estimate the dynamic supply-responsiveness in this market in the presence of the increasingly powerful technological shocks as the Industrial Revolution proceeded apace. Using both an Instrumental Variable method and a dynamic Vector Autoregression framework (VAR) system to identify the long-run response functions, we find evidence of an elastic supply, sufficiently high…
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe
The Wheels of Change
This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and industrialisation. We argue that mechanical skills and competence were a main determinant of the location of industry on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. It concentrates on the case of millwrights, eighteenth-century specialists in advanced carpentry and hydraulic machinery. Millwrights were a key part of the upper tail of the distributio…
Industrialization and Poverty in Ireland and the Netherlands
ing for the moment from large internal variations within each, were in the level of development of the agricultural sector and the survival of certain remnants of the golden age in the Netherlands, which had no counterpart in Ireland. Dutch agricultural sector was severely hit by the potato famine, and although the rural and urban poor, who depended on potatoes, could obtain little help from the modern sector, the bulk of the agricultural sector …
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War
The past and the future of innovation
The Economics of Being Jewish
In his Capitalism and the Jews, Jerry Z. Muller discusses the relationship between Jews and "usury"; explains how Jews have benefitted from capitalism; argues that most Jews are not on the left; and describes the relationship between Jews and nationalism. In covering this much ground in so compact a book, he naturally leaves out a great deal, such as the importance of ideology in issues of determining Jewish economic savoir faire, and why, despit…
Why Ireland Starved
The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The comparative method will accomplish great things. ... The historical specialist asks for a method which is a technical instrument, generally used, easily manageable and capable of giving positive results. The comparative method is precisely such an instrument. ... I believe that this method can and must penetrate monographic studies. Marc Bloch
The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
The comparative method will accomplish great things. ... The historical specialist asks for a method which is a technical instrument, generally used, easily manageable and capable of giving positive results. The comparative method is precisely such an instrument. ... I believe that this method can and must penetrate monographic studies. Marc Bloch
Summaries of Research Workshops
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Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850
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Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe
Failed Transitions to Modern Industrial Society
94 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the United States and Canada for an American edition? Appendix 1, “Where to Find Windmills,” ought to be entitled, “Where to Find Windmills in England.” Appendix 2, “Windmill Societies and Museums,” gives for Denmark the National Museum, but not the Danske Millers Venner (Anders Jespersen, Denmark’s hero of molinology, is misspelled Jesperson throughout); for the United States, only the Society for the Prese…
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution
It has been widely believed that demand elements, jointly with supply shifts, were crucial in determining the timing, location, and general characteristics of the Industrial Revolution in England and Continental Western Europe. The possible forms which the role of demand might have taken are specified and examined both theoretically and empirically. While demand factors cannot be ruled out altogether, they were definitely of a secondary order of …
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War
Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth
Failed Transitions to Modern Industrial Society
The Political Economy of the Cotton South
De Demografische Ontwikkeling van Nederland in de Erste Helft van de Negentiende Eeuw
Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795-1850
Malthusian Models and Irish History
Malthusian models occupy a central position in the interpretation and analysis of long-term economic and demographic change in preindustrial societies. The models are logically plausible and attractive, but ultimately they will have to be confronted with systematic evidence before being accepted. In this paper results are reported that cast some doubt on these models in the case of prefamine Ireland. The results indicate that the evidence support…
Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek, Vol. XLI, 1978
La population de l'Irlande
Industrialization and Poverty in Ireland and the Netherlands
ing for the moment from large internal variations within each, were in the level of development of the agricultural sector and the survival of certain remnants of the golden age in the Netherlands, which had no counterpart in Ireland. Dutch agricultural sector was severely hit by the potato famine, and although the rural and urban poor, who depended on potatoes, could obtain little help from the modern sector, the bulk of the agricultural sector …
Population Growth and Agrarian Change
Irish History with the Potato
Industrialization in Two Languages
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland
Prosperous Interlude The Dynamics of Victorian Business
Artists and Artisans in Delft
Three Centuries of Population Change The Population History of England, 1541-1871
And Thou, Happy Austria? A Review Essay
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