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Appendix to "Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution" 0 0 0 144 2 2 2 90
Apprenticeship and Technological Progress in the Malthusian World 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 159
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 1 89 2 3 8 153
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 87 2 9 10 95
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 88 2 9 10 94
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 82 5 9 14 118
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 101 9 16 23 104
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 4 21 153 153 8 41 97 97
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 0 3 39 6 10 14 102
Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850 0 0 0 1 6 9 25 1,699
From poor to poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the famine: a new look 0 0 0 7 3 3 5 25
Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860: evidence from the East India company army 0 0 2 18 3 4 6 67
Living standards in Ireland and Britain, 1800-1850: the East India Company Army data 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 35
New developments in Irish population history 1700-1850 0 0 2 12 0 3 7 44
Peasants, Potatoes, and Poverty: Transactions Costs in Prefamine Ireland 0 0 1 41 0 0 2 179
Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution 0 1 4 396 3 11 29 766
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 275 5 6 11 1,159
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 149 2 4 5 64
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 1 7 8 109 2 17 20 59
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 2 23 1 7 12 73
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 2 3 6 137 4 16 42 167
The Deadly Fungus: An Econometric Investigation into the Short Term Demographic Impact of the Irish Famine 0 0 2 95 0 2 7 362
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 2 7 7 284
The Marshall Plan: Then and Now 2 42 42 42 3 23 23 23
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 1 6 10 175 3 15 28 335
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 0 6 12 210 7 26 45 351
The Past and Future of Innovation: Can Progress be sustained? 16 16 16 16 33 33 33 33
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 0 1 133 2 6 10 231
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization 0 1 1 92 3 7 9 173
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 27
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 4 2 4 7 79
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 0 2 4 33
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence 1 1 3 527 3 9 17 1,236
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: the view from Economic History 0 0 0 152 5 11 13 414
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 1 1 46 2 5 13 143
Total Working Papers 27 105 270 3,460 134 338 570 9,073


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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 0 1 88
A Flourishing Economist: A Review Essay on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change 0 1 1 80 0 3 7 261
A.A.G. Bijdragen, Vol. 22. Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis Landbouwhogeschool, 1979. Pp. 220 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 36
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 0 1 54
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 0 1 1 34
And Thou, Happy Austria? A Review Essay 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 13
Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution? 0 1 3 109 1 5 13 812
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 1 9 0 0 4 40
Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95 0 0 1 5 1 2 3 60
Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution 0 2 3 15 4 10 18 144
British Historical Statistics. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 886. $135.00 0 0 0 66 1 1 1 199
Cardwell's Law and the political economy of technological progress 1 11 21 337 9 33 55 1,182
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy 1 2 5 61 6 13 31 348
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 4 4 59 3 11 13 139
Commentary: global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 63
Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? 3 6 11 60 4 10 23 111
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth 1 9 11 44 8 21 27 122
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 1 1 1 33
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution 0 1 2 78 3 9 10 290
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion 0 0 1 40 2 2 3 182
Discussion 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 14
Discussion 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 8
Discussion 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 9
Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 66
Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain 0 0 0 4 3 5 7 19
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 0 2 71
Economic Transformations 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 69
Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History 0 0 0 12 1 4 6 329
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 1 18
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 0 0 1 137 0 2 6 630
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 1 2 133 2 5 7 298
Europe 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Evolutionary Biology, Technological Change and Economic History 0 0 0 0 1 6 11 270
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 17 6 8 9 79
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe 0 0 1 105 1 2 5 458
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson 0 0 0 264 0 1 2 502
Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army 1 1 2 86 1 2 3 289
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 1 2 125
Human Capital, Useful Knowledge, and Long-Term Economic Growth 0 2 5 39 0 4 8 103
In defence of generalized Darwinism 0 2 3 113 3 8 15 362
Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth 3 16 16 35 6 34 35 70
Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach 0 1 1 75 1 3 3 355
Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 0 9 9 10 7 25 26 60
Industrialization in Two Languages 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 16
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 0 0 0 23
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War 0 2 3 67 1 3 5 309
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 1 1 8 0 2 2 28
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 57 2 8 14 128
Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment 0 12 12 78 14 66 72 280
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’ 0 3 4 16 2 7 8 27
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth 1 7 9 221 10 24 29 937
Introduction 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 11
Irish History with the Potato 0 1 3 5 3 6 9 15
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 2 2 15 0 2 2 61
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850 0 2 3 83 3 7 12 185
Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: a book roundtable 0 1 1 4 2 11 11 29
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 0 0 0 15
L'Invention Technique au Siècle des Lumières. By Liliane Hilaire-Pérez. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000. Pp. 443. Ffr 140.00 0 0 0 5 1 3 3 35
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 0 0 33
La Revolucion Industrial y la Nueva Historia Economica (I)* 0 1 1 28 2 7 9 130
La Revolución Industrial y La Nueva Historia Económica (y II)* 0 1 1 18 1 3 3 54
Malthusian Models and Irish History 0 0 1 6 0 0 4 24
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 1 1 70
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 1 1 1 41 2 3 3 81
New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850 0 0 2 27 1 4 11 86
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 1 2 2 45
Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the Famine 0 1 1 30 3 7 9 81
Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution 1 2 12 137 4 17 53 645
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 0 0 0 21
Prosperous Interlude: Review Article 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 51
Punctuated Equilibria and Technological Progress 2 12 18 269 6 33 42 614
Reply to Peter Solar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Review: The Famine in Ireland 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3
Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged 1 7 7 14 2 24 32 56
Technological Inertia in Economic History 0 4 6 93 6 17 22 341
Technological Progress and the Decline of European Mortality 0 0 1 125 1 3 7 260
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 0 1 1 167
Technology in the Industrial Revolution. By Barbara Hahn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+225. $24.95, paperback 0 1 1 11 1 3 3 36
Technology, Growth and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective. By Vernon W. Ruttan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 656 0 1 2 227 0 1 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 2 2 2 7 2 2 4 23
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 1 1 59
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 0 0 4
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 2 4 130
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? 1 5 11 106 18 36 64 596
The Industrial Revolution and the economic history of technology: Lessons from the British experience, 1760-1850 0 0 1 124 3 7 9 433
The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Case Study 0 1 1 18 1 2 4 79
The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s The Institutional Revolution 0 1 1 12 0 2 2 53
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 10 13 233 3 24 38 773
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 5 16 42 134 23 72 169 505
The Power of Ideas 0 2 3 176 1 13 16 410
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 1 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 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 25
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation 1 8 9 34 3 13 21 81
The past and the future of innovation: Some lessons from economic history 2 8 12 104 9 28 37 365
The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution 3 8 9 202 5 20 26 835
The simple economics of Richard Nelson: A review essay 0 1 1 37 0 3 3 90
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 0 1 336 0 2 6 1,046
Three Centuries of Population Change 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 100
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700–1870: Theory and Evidence 1 2 3 105 4 7 12 318
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 0 0 121 4 4 9 492
Why “More Work for Mother?” Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945 0 1 1 16 3 5 7 50
Total Journal Articles 31 197 314 5,697 233 757 1,190 20,622


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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 8 56 89 582
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times 0 0 0 0 2 15 29 132
The Knowledge Economy in Development: Perspectives for Effective Partnerships 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 33
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress 0 0 0 0 15 79 100 1,086
Total Books 0 0 0 5 26 151 221 1,833


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Culture Versus Institutions in the Great Enrichment 0 1 1 1 1 11 13 13
Culture and Economics 5 14 14 70 6 17 18 204
Institutions and the Beginnings of Economic Growth in Eighteenth-Century Britain 0 0 1 11 1 1 5 33
Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation 0 0 0 16 2 2 2 68
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology 4 37 44 895 13 81 102 2,993
Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand 0 0 2 49 1 7 11 152
The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change 1 6 10 123 7 19 31 339
The Entrepreneur in History 0 1 2 28 5 10 15 161
The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth 3 14 27 177 11 33 66 507
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 5 7 46 7 15 20 161
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 7 8 27
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 0 2 297 2 2 7 822
Total Chapters 13 78 110 1,713 57 205 298 5,480


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