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Appendix to "Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution" 0 0 0 144 0 10 10 98
Apprenticeship and Technological Progress in the Malthusian World 0 0 0 0 3 17 23 174
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 1 89 1 8 11 159
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 1 1 102 1 16 29 111
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 88 2 5 12 97
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 82 2 7 14 120
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 87 0 6 14 99
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 4 9 158 158 6 19 108 108
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 2 2 4 41 4 13 19 109
Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850 0 0 0 1 1 13 28 1,706
From poor to poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the famine: a new look 0 0 0 7 0 8 9 30
Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860: evidence from the East India company army 0 0 2 18 0 7 10 71
Living standards in Ireland and Britain, 1800-1850: the East India Company Army data 0 0 0 6 0 6 6 40
New developments in Irish population history 1700-1850 0 1 2 13 3 12 18 56
Peasants, Potatoes, and Poverty: Transactions Costs in Prefamine Ireland 0 0 1 41 0 0 1 179
Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution 0 0 4 396 6 17 41 780
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 1 1 276 2 10 15 1,164
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 1 1 1 150 1 6 9 68
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 3 6 138 1 14 47 177
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 0 23 2 6 13 78
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 1 8 109 3 8 26 65
The Deadly Fungus: An Econometric Investigation into the Short Term Demographic Impact of the Irish Famine 0 0 2 95 0 3 10 365
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 6 11 288
The Marshall Plan: Then and Now 0 4 44 44 0 9 29 29
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 3 4 10 178 4 15 33 347
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 1 2 11 212 7 22 54 366
The Past and Future of Innovation: Can Progress be sustained? 17 271 271 271 32 209 209 209
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 1 2 134 1 6 13 235
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization 0 0 1 92 0 7 12 177
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 4 3 11 15 88
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 3 2 8 10 34
The heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815: evidence from recruits to the East India Company's army 0 0 0 8 2 8 12 41
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence 1 2 4 528 3 10 21 1,243
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: the view from Economic History 0 0 0 152 1 9 16 418
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 1 1 2 47 3 10 19 151
Total Working Papers 30 304 536 3,737 96 541 927 9,480


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1688: The First Modern Revolution. By Steve Pincus. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 647. $40.00 0 0 0 26 0 1 2 89
A Flourishing Economist: A Review Essay on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change 1 1 2 81 2 6 13 267
A.A.G. Bijdragen, Vol. 22. Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis Landbouwhogeschool, 1979. Pp. 220 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 37
Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. By Alexander J. Field. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 373. $65.00 0 0 0 15 0 3 3 57
An Economic History of Ulster, 1820–1939. Edited by Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. 248. $26.00 0 0 0 5 1 3 4 37
And Thou, Happy Austria? A Review Essay 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 14
Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution? 0 0 2 109 1 14 24 825
Barges and Capitalism: Passenger Transportation in the Dutch Economy: 1632–1839. By Jan de Vries. Published in “A.A.G. Bijdragen,”Wageningen, The Netherlands, Vol. 21, 1978. Pp. 398. By subscription 0 0 0 9 3 5 6 45
Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 60
Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution 0 3 6 18 3 18 31 158
British Historical Statistics. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 886. $135.00 0 0 0 66 0 2 2 200
Cardwell's Law and the political economy of technological progress 1 3 22 339 5 20 60 1,193
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy 1 2 5 62 6 18 42 360
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 1 2 6 61 6 19 28 155
Commentary: global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance 0 0 0 15 1 2 3 65
Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? 0 3 10 60 4 10 27 117
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth 1 4 13 47 5 23 39 137
De Economische Geschiedenis van Nederland. Edited by J. H. Van Stuijvenberg. Groningen: Wolters Noordholt, 1977. Pp. x, 398; index. DF 39.50 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 33
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution 1 1 3 79 1 10 17 297
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion 0 0 1 40 2 6 7 186
Discussion 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 10
Discussion 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 15
Discussion 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 13
Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 66
Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain 0 0 0 4 2 11 14 27
Early Modern - Pre-Industrial Economic Growth: Social Organization and Technological Progress in Europe. By Karl Gunnar Persson. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp. viii, 159. $45.00 0 0 0 24 0 3 3 74
Economic Transformations 0 0 0 28 0 2 2 71
Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History 0 0 0 12 0 4 8 332
Economics, History, and Human Biology: Review Article 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 188
Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek, vol. 39, 1976. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, for Het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, 1976. Pp. 390 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 19
Economists and the Irish Economy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. Edited by Antoin Murphy. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1984. Pp. 174. $25.00 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 33
Eight: Eurocentric Historians. By J. M. Blaut. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227. $22.00, paper 1 1 2 138 2 5 10 635
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 0 1 133 1 5 9 301
Europe 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Evolutionary Biology, Technological Change and Economic History 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 273
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 17 2 15 18 88
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe 0 0 1 105 1 3 6 460
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson 0 0 0 264 1 3 5 505
Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army 0 1 2 86 1 8 10 296
How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell Jr New York: Basic Books, 1986. Pp. xii, 353. $19.95 0 0 0 44 1 3 3 127
Human Capital, Useful Knowledge, and Long-Term Economic Growth 0 1 6 40 5 9 17 112
In defence of generalized Darwinism 0 0 3 113 1 5 16 364
Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth 2 6 19 38 2 9 38 73
Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach 0 0 1 75 1 5 7 359
Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 2 3 12 13 3 18 37 71
Industrialization in Two Languages 0 0 0 3 0 3 5 19
Industriële Naamloze Vennootschappen in België, 1819–1857. By Julienne Laureyssens. Interuniversitair Centrum voor Hedendaagse Geschiedenis, Bijdragen No. 78. Leuven: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1975. Pp. 771, v. BF 1,300 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 25
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War 0 0 2 67 1 5 8 313
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. By Calestous Juma. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii+416. $29.95, hardcover 0 0 1 8 0 2 4 30
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 1 1 3 58 1 6 14 132
Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment 0 1 13 79 4 27 84 293
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’ 0 0 4 16 0 2 8 27
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth 0 2 10 222 4 19 38 946
Introduction 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 12
Irish History with the Potato 0 0 3 5 0 4 10 16
Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Edited by J. M. Goldstrom and L. A. Clarkson. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. x, 322. $45.00 0 0 2 15 0 2 4 63
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850 1 1 3 84 2 6 13 188
Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: a book roundtable 0 1 2 5 0 6 15 33
Kernproblemen der Economische Geschiedenis. Edited by H. Baudet and H. Van Der Meulen. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1978. Pp. xi, 404. DF 45 0 0 0 2 1 3 3 18
L'Invention Technique au Siècle des Lumières. By Liliane Hilaire-Pérez. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000. Pp. 443. Ffr 140.00 0 0 0 5 0 4 6 38
La Grande Quantification 0 0 1 9 0 0 2 26
La Population de Diest pendant les deux premiers tiers du XIXe siècle. By Michel Theys. Collection Pro Civitate, ser. 8, no. 50. Brussels: Credit Communal de Belgique, 1977. Pp. 164. 300 BF 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 34
La Revolucion Industrial y la Nueva Historia Economica (I)* 0 0 1 28 3 11 18 139
La Revolución Industrial y La Nueva Historia Económica (y II)* 1 1 2 19 2 6 8 59
Malthusian Models and Irish History 0 0 0 6 0 5 7 29
Metals, Culture, and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World. By Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. 349. $26.99, paper 0 0 0 23 1 2 2 71
More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics. By Philip Mirowski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 450. $59.50 0 1 1 41 0 4 5 83
New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850 0 0 0 27 0 6 11 91
Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in Twentieth-Century America. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 214. $27.95 0 0 0 7 0 4 5 48
Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the Famine 0 0 1 30 1 7 13 85
Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution 2 4 13 140 4 16 54 657
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. By Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. 261. $29.95, hardcover 0 0 0 4 2 5 5 26
Prosperous Interlude: Review Article 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 54
Punctuated Equilibria and Technological Progress 1 3 15 270 3 12 44 620
Reply to Peter Solar 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
Review: The Famine in Ireland 0 0 1 1 0 4 5 5
Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged 3 4 10 17 6 11 40 65
Technological Inertia in Economic History 0 0 6 93 2 11 25 346
Technological Progress and the Decline of European Mortality 0 0 1 125 0 5 11 264
Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand–Year History. ByArnold Pacey · Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. vii + 238 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper, $10.95. ISBN 0-262-66072-5 0 0 0 28 2 3 4 170
Technology in the Industrial Revolution. By Barbara Hahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+225. $24.95, paperback 0 0 1 11 0 2 4 37
Technology, Growth and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective. By Vernon W. Ruttan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 656 0 0 2 227 0 0 3 502
The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850. A review essay of Gillian Cookson. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. 337. $24.13, paper. - Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France. By Paola Bertucci. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. $35.01, hardcover 0 2 2 7 0 5 6 26
The British Economy since 1700: A Macroeconomic Perspective. By C. H. Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 297. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper 0 0 0 21 0 3 4 62
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol. V: The Economic Organization of Early Modern Europe. Edited by E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xi + 749. $38.50 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 6
The European Periphery and Industrialization, 1780–1914. By Iván T. Berend and György Ránki. New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982. Pp. 180. $27.50 0 0 1 38 0 1 5 131
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? 1 2 11 107 16 63 103 641
The Industrial Revolution and the economic history of technology: Lessons from the British experience, 1760-1850 0 0 0 124 0 4 9 434
The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Case Study 0 0 1 18 0 3 6 81
The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s The Institutional Revolution 0 0 1 12 0 2 4 55
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 1 4 15 237 4 16 44 786
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 2 13 43 142 13 58 177 540
The Power of Ideas 0 1 4 177 1 7 22 416
The Rise and Decline of Holland's Economy: Merchant Capitalism and the Labour Market. By Jan L. Van Zanden. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 186. Cloth, $69.95 0 0 2 21 0 0 3 93
The Technology Trap: Capital Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. By Carl Benedikt Frey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 480. $29.95, hardcover 1 1 1 7 4 5 6 30
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation 1 3 11 36 7 16 34 94
The past and the future of innovation: Some lessons from economic history 1 3 10 105 2 18 42 374
The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution 0 5 10 204 1 14 33 844
The simple economics of Richard Nelson: A review essay 0 0 1 37 0 1 4 91
The standard of living: The Tanner lectures: Amartya Sen, Cambridge, 1985, edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. xiv + 125, $25.00 0 1 1 337 1 4 7 1,050
Three Centuries of Population Change 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 102
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700–1870: Theory and Evidence 1 3 5 107 6 14 21 328
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 0 0 121 1 7 12 495
Why “More Work for Mother?” Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945 0 0 1 16 2 6 9 53
Total Journal Articles 28 88 335 5,754 168 755 1,593 21,144


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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 9 23 89 597
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times 0 0 0 0 3 18 42 148
The Knowledge Economy in Development: Perspectives for Effective Partnerships 0 0 0 5 1 5 6 37
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress 0 0 0 0 6 32 109 1,103
Total Books 0 0 0 5 19 78 246 1,885


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Culture Versus Institutions in the Great Enrichment 0 0 1 1 4 9 21 21
Culture and Economics 0 5 14 70 0 9 20 207
Institutions and the Beginnings of Economic Growth in Eighteenth-Century Britain 0 0 0 11 2 4 7 36
Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation 0 0 0 16 2 6 6 72
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology 0 7 45 898 3 37 120 3,017
Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand 0 0 1 49 3 6 14 157
The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change 2 4 13 126 4 19 41 351
The Entrepreneur in History 1 1 2 29 3 15 22 171
The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth 1 4 26 178 3 20 67 516
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 1 7 47 1 11 23 165
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 3 9 16 35
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 1 3 298 5 11 15 831
Total Chapters 4 23 112 1,723 33 156 372 5,579


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