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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton University Press 2017 New JerseyDescription: 403pISBN:
  • 9780691168883
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 MOK
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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

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