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Title

The enlightened economy : an economic history of Britain, 1700-1850 / Joel Mokyr.

Author

Mokyr, Joel.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

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Description

x, 564 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In a vigorous discussion, which goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society, Mokyr argues that the bases of the emergence of modern economic growth in Britain are to be found in what key players knew and believed, and how those convictions affected their economic behaviour. The belief in progress, coupled with the strategies to bring it about led Britain, and eventually most of the western world, into the modern era." "With a remarkably wide range of reference, and covering sectors of the British economy often neglected, this masterful book both synthesizes existing scholarship and provides a wholly new perspective for understanding Britain's economic development in the ageof the Industrial Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The New economic history of Britain

Uniform Title

New economic history of Britain.

Subject

• Industrial revolution > Great Britain
• Enlightenment > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Economic conditions > 18th century
• Great Britain > Economic conditions > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [490]-532) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Ideology, Knowledge, and Institutions in Economic Change -- 1. Prologue: the British Economy in 1700 -- 2. Enlightenment and Economy -- 3. Useful knowledge and Technology -- 4. An Enlightened Political Economy -- 5. Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution -- 6. The Origins of British Technological Leadership -- 7. Technological Change in the Industrial Revolution -- 8. Britain and the World: An Open Economy -- 9. Agriculture in the Age of Enlightenment -- 10. The Service Sectors: Commerce and Transport -- 11. The Service Sectors: Finance and Personal Services -- 12. Progress and Productivity -- 13. Demographic Transformation in the Age Of Enlightenment -- 14. Gender and Family in an Enlightened Economy -- 15. Factories and Firms in an Age of Technological Progress -- 16. Social Norms and a Civil Economy -- 17. Formal Institutions: The State and the Economy -- 18. Lving Standards and Inequality -- 19. The Results: The British Economy in 1850.

ISBN

• 9780300124552 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0300124554 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780300189513
• 0300189516

LCCN

• 2009014236
• 99937604728

OCLC

ocn303085352

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Columbia University Libraries