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Mokyr, Joel

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2017 - 403p

Part I: Evolution, Culture and Economic History
1. Culture and Economics
2. Nature and Technology
3. Cultural Evolution and Economics
4. Choice-based Cultural Evolution
5. Biases in Cultural Evolution

Part II: Cultural Entrepreneurs and Economic Change, 1500-1700
6. Cultural Entrepreneurs and Choice-based Cultural Evolution
7. Francis Bacon, Cultural Entrepreneur
8. Isaac Newton, Cultural Entrepreneur

Part III: Innovation, Competition and Pluralism in Europe, 1500-1700
9. Cultural Choice in Action. Human Capital and Religion
10. Cultural Change and the Growth of Useful Knowledge, 1500-1700
11. Fragmentation, Competition and Cultural Change
12. Competition and the Republic of Letters

Part IV: Prelude to the Enlightenment
13. Puritanism and British Exceptionalism
14. A Culture of Progress 247
15. The Enlightenment and Economic Change

Part V: Cultural Change in the East and West
16. China and Europe
17. China and the Enlightenment

ISBN: 9780691168883

Subjects--Personal Names:
Economic Development
Economic History

Dewey Class. No.: 330 / MOK