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Appendix to "Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution" 0 0 0 144 0 1 12 100
Apprenticeship and Technological Progress in the Malthusian World 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 178
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 2 91 0 1 18 168
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 82 0 2 15 124
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 1 3 104 0 4 31 119
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 87 0 0 22 108
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 88 1 4 21 106
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 0 4 37 169 2 11 88 144
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 0 53 53 53 1 26 27 27
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 0 3 42 0 1 21 113
Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850 0 0 0 1 0 2 23 1,713
From poor to poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the famine: a new look 0 0 0 7 1 1 11 33
Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860: evidence from the East India company army 0 1 1 19 0 1 9 72
Living standards in Ireland and Britain, 1800-1850: the East India Company Army data 0 0 0 6 0 0 7 41
New developments in Irish population history 1700-1850 1 1 2 14 1 1 18 59
Peasants, Potatoes, and Poverty: Transactions Costs in Prefamine Ireland 0 0 0 41 0 0 2 181
Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution 0 1 2 397 0 6 38 793
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 1 150 0 4 21 81
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 3 278 0 0 24 1,177
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 1 8 110 0 2 37 79
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 0 23 1 2 15 81
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 4 138 1 2 32 183
The Deadly Fungus: An Econometric Investigation into the Short Term Demographic Impact of the Irish Famine 0 0 5 100 0 0 12 372
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 292
The Marshall Plan: Then and Now 1 2 48 48 3 5 42 42
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 0 1 11 215 1 3 54 379
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 0 1 13 182 0 5 48 368
The Past and Future of Innovation: Can Progress be sustained? 10 54 368 368 15 91 370 370
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 0 2 135 0 2 29 254
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization 0 0 2 93 1 2 21 187
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 1 5 0 1 20 95
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 3 0 1 17 42
The heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815: evidence from recruits to the East India Company's army 0 1 2 10 0 2 16 47
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence 0 0 3 529 1 4 35 1,262
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: the view from Economic History 0 0 0 152 1 6 33 436
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 0 4 49 0 2 26 164
Total Working Papers 12 121 578 3,933 30 195 1,255 9,990


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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 6 94
A Flourishing Economist: A Review Essay on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change 1 1 3 82 1 2 14 272
A.A.G. Bijdragen, Vol. 22. Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis Landbouwhogeschool, 1979. Pp. 220 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 41
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 4 58
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 0 8 41
And Thou, Happy Austria? A Review Essay 0 0 0 4 0 1 7 20
Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution? 0 0 1 109 0 0 22 829
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 2 2 11 1 5 13 53
Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 61
Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 5 18 0 0 32 166
British Historical Statistics. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 886. $135.00 0 0 0 66 0 1 4 202
Cardwell's Law and the political economy of technological progress 1 2 16 342 2 5 56 1,205
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy 1 1 5 64 6 9 46 381
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 0 8 63 0 3 36 164
Commentary: global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance 0 0 0 15 1 1 6 69
Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? 1 3 10 64 3 6 35 136
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth 1 1 19 54 2 3 61 162
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 0 4 36
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution 0 0 2 79 0 1 30 311
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion 0 0 0 40 0 2 10 190
Discussion 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 17
Discussion 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 17
Discussion 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 12
Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 69
Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain 1 1 1 5 1 2 19 33
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 2 7 78
Economic Transformations 0 0 0 28 0 1 5 74
Economic progress and its discontents 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History 0 0 0 12 0 2 11 336
Economics, History, and Human Biology: Review Article 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 189
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 0 3 20
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 1 1 34
Eight: Eurocentric Historians. By J. M. Blaut. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227. $22.00, paper 0 0 1 138 0 1 12 640
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 0 1 133 0 1 16 309
Europe 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 9
Evolutionary Biology, Technological Change and Economic History 0 0 0 0 0 5 17 281
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 17 0 1 25 96
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe 0 0 0 105 0 1 6 462
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson 0 0 0 264 0 0 10 511
Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army 0 1 2 87 0 3 13 300
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 1 45 0 1 6 130
Human Capital, Useful Knowledge, and Long-Term Economic Growth 0 0 3 40 0 1 17 116
In defence of generalized Darwinism 0 1 5 116 0 1 15 369
Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth 1 3 26 45 1 7 55 91
Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach 0 0 2 76 0 0 9 361
Industrialization in Two Languages 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 20
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 1 4 27
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War 0 0 2 67 2 2 12 318
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 9 35
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 59 0 1 16 136
Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment 0 0 15 81 0 1 92 306
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’ 0 1 5 18 0 1 9 29
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth 1 2 10 224 1 4 41 954
Introduction 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 15
Irish History with the Potato 0 0 2 6 0 0 11 20
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 0 5 64
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850 1 3 7 88 2 4 17 195
Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: a book roundtable 0 0 3 6 0 1 21 39
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 1 6 21
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 0 10 42
La Grande Quantification 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 28
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 3 36
La Revolucion Industrial y la Nueva Historia Economica (I)* 0 0 1 28 0 3 28 151
La Revolución Industrial y La Nueva Historia Económica (y II)* 0 0 2 19 0 0 8 59
Malthusian Models and Irish History 0 0 0 6 0 0 8 32
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 0 1 5 74
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 2 42 1 2 11 89
New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850 0 0 0 27 1 2 16 98
Nobel Lecture: The Past and Future of Innovation: Can Progress Be Sustained? 7 44 44 44 13 66 66 66
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 2 7 50
Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the Famine 0 0 1 30 3 4 18 92
Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution 1 2 7 142 5 13 56 684
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 1 7 28
Prosperous Interlude: Review Article 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 57
Punctuated Equilibria and Technological Progress 0 0 17 274 2 5 57 638
Reply to Peter Solar 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 6
Review: The Famine in Ireland 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 7
Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged 0 1 13 20 4 7 54 86
Technological Inertia in Economic History 0 1 7 96 2 8 40 364
Technological Progress and the Decline of European Mortality 0 0 0 125 0 0 9 266
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 5 171
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 1 6 39
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 1 227 0 0 5 506
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 0 2 7 0 1 7 28
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 0 6 64
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 1 5 9
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 0 38 0 0 5 133
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? 0 1 9 110 1 10 117 677
The Industrial Revolution and the economic history of technology: Lessons from the British experience, 1760-1850 0 0 1 125 0 1 14 440
The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s The Institutional Revolution 0 0 1 12 1 4 14 65
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 1 1 17 240 1 4 51 800
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 1 3 32 150 6 13 142 575
The Power of Ideas 1 1 4 178 1 2 26 423
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 0 21 0 0 2 94
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 1 7 1 2 9 34
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation 0 3 13 39 1 7 40 108
The past and the future of innovation: Some lessons from economic history 0 0 10 106 0 0 50 387
The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution 1 2 13 207 2 3 39 854
The simple economics of Richard Nelson: A review essay 0 1 2 38 1 2 9 96
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 1 337 0 2 17 1,061
Three Centuries of Population Change 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 102
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700–1870: Theory and Evidence 0 0 4 107 1 1 21 332
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 0 0 121 0 1 14 502
Why “More Work for Mother?” Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945 1 1 2 17 2 3 13 58
Total Journal Articles 23 85 371 5,853 73 268 1,983 21,736
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 1 4 90 616
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times 0 0 0 0 2 4 43 160
The Knowledge Economy in Development: Perspectives for Effective Partnerships 0 0 1 6 0 0 8 40
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress 0 0 0 0 6 12 142 1,149
Total Books 0 0 1 6 9 20 283 1,965


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Culture Versus Institutions in the Great Enrichment 0 0 1 1 3 11 41 43
Culture and Economics 1 1 19 75 2 3 44 231
Institutions and the Beginnings of Economic Growth in Eighteenth-Century Britain 0 0 0 11 0 0 8 40
Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation 0 0 0 16 0 0 9 75
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology 2 4 53 911 4 9 139 3,051
Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand 0 1 4 53 0 2 19 164
The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change 1 2 13 130 6 65 105 425
The Entrepreneur in History 0 0 2 29 1 22 59 210
The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth 1 1 19 182 3 5 54 528
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 6 47 1 2 24 170
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 38
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 2 4 301 1 6 29 849
Total Chapters 5 11 121 1,756 21 125 549 5,824


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