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Appendix to "Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution" 0 0 0 144 1 1 11 99
Apprenticeship and Technological Progress in the Malthusian World 0 0 0 0 2 6 24 177
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 1 102 1 3 29 113
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 82 2 4 16 122
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 1 1 90 2 5 13 163
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 87 4 7 20 106
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 88 3 6 16 101
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 2 10 164 164 6 23 125 125
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 2 3 41 0 6 20 111
Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850 0 0 0 1 1 5 27 1,710
From poor to poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the famine: a new look 0 0 0 7 1 1 10 31
Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860: evidence from the East India company army 0 0 2 18 0 0 10 71
Living standards in Ireland and Britain, 1800-1850: the East India Company Army data 0 0 0 6 1 1 7 41
New developments in Irish population history 1700-1850 0 0 1 13 1 5 18 58
Peasants, Potatoes, and Poverty: Transactions Costs in Prefamine Ireland 0 0 0 41 2 2 2 181
Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution 0 0 4 396 1 9 39 783
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 1 1 150 5 9 17 76
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 1 2 3 278 4 8 21 1,170
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 0 23 0 3 14 79
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 6 138 3 4 43 180
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 8 109 4 9 31 71
The Deadly Fungus: An Econometric Investigation into the Short Term Demographic Impact of the Irish Famine 1 3 3 98 2 4 10 369
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 2 3 14 291
The Marshall Plan: Then and Now 1 2 46 46 3 6 35 35
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 0 5 12 180 5 16 42 359
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 1 3 11 214 3 15 58 374
The Past and Future of Innovation: Can Progress be sustained? 5 43 297 297 14 79 256 256
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 0 2 134 10 14 26 248
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization 1 1 2 93 6 8 19 185
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 1 1 5 3 8 18 93
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 3 5 7 14 39
The heights of the British and the Irish c. 1800-1815: evidence from recruits to the East India Company's army 1 1 1 9 3 5 15 44
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence 0 2 4 529 4 15 30 1,255
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: the view from Economic History 0 0 0 152 7 10 25 427
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 1 3 4 49 7 11 25 159
Total Working Papers 14 80 577 3,787 118 318 1,100 9,702


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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 2 4 6 93
A Flourishing Economist: A Review Essay on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change 0 1 2 81 2 4 14 269
A.A.G. Bijdragen, Vol. 22. Wageningen: Afdeling Agrarische Geschiedenis Landbouwhogeschool, 1979. Pp. 220 0 0 0 5 2 2 3 39
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 1 1 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 4 5 8 41
And Thou, Happy Austria? A Review Essay 0 0 0 4 5 5 6 19
Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution? 0 0 1 109 1 4 23 828
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 0 4 6 46
Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 60
Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 6 18 3 8 30 163
British Historical Statistics. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 886. $135.00 0 0 0 66 1 1 3 201
Cardwell's Law and the political economy of technological progress 0 1 19 339 4 10 62 1,198
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy 0 1 5 62 4 11 44 365
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 0 2 7 62 3 10 32 159
Commentary: global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance 0 0 0 15 3 4 6 68
Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? 0 0 8 60 5 11 31 124
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth 2 3 15 49 4 12 45 144
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 2 34
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution 0 1 2 79 4 9 24 305
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion 0 0 0 40 0 3 7 187
Discussion 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 17
Discussion 0 0 0 0 4 4 10 17
Discussion 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 11
Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 66
Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain 0 0 0 4 4 6 17 31
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 2 2 5 76
Economic Transformations 0 0 0 28 2 2 4 73
Economics and the Biologists: A Review of Geerat J. Vermeij's Nature: An Economic History 0 0 0 12 2 2 10 334
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 1 1 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 0 0 33
Eight: Eurocentric Historians. By J. M. Blaut. New York: Guilford Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227. $22.00, paper 0 1 2 138 2 4 10 637
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 0 1 133 1 4 12 304
Europe 0 0 0 0 6 6 8 8
Evolutionary Biology, Technological Change and Economic History 0 0 0 0 2 5 13 276
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 17 5 7 23 93
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe 0 0 1 105 0 1 5 460
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson 0 0 0 264 3 6 10 510
Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army 0 0 2 86 1 2 11 297
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 1 1 1 45 2 3 5 129
Human Capital, Useful Knowledge, and Long-Term Economic Growth 0 0 5 40 1 7 18 114
In defence of generalized Darwinism 1 1 4 114 2 4 19 367
Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth 1 4 21 40 3 10 46 81
Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach 0 0 1 75 1 2 8 360
Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 1 5 15 16 5 11 44 79
Industrialization in Two Languages 0 0 0 3 1 1 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 1 2 3 26
Inflation and the wage lag during the American Civil War 0 0 2 67 3 4 11 316
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 2 2 6 32
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 58 0 3 16 134
Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment 0 0 13 79 3 11 88 300
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’ 0 0 4 16 0 0 8 27
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth 0 0 8 222 1 5 35 947
Introduction 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 13
Irish History with the Potato 1 1 3 6 4 4 13 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 1 1 5 64
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850 0 1 3 84 0 3 13 189
Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: a book roundtable 0 0 2 5 4 4 19 37
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 2 3 5 20
L'Invention Technique au Siècle des Lumières. By Liliane Hilaire-Pérez. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000. Pp. 443. Ffr 140.00 0 0 0 5 3 4 10 42
La Grande Quantification 0 0 1 9 2 2 4 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 1 1 2 35
La Revolucion Industrial y la Nueva Historia Economica (I)* 0 0 1 28 2 7 22 143
La Revolución Industrial y La Nueva Historia Económica (y II)* 0 1 2 19 0 2 8 59
Malthusian Models and Irish History 0 0 0 6 2 2 7 31
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 3 4 73
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 0 1 41 3 4 9 87
New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850 0 0 0 27 2 3 14 94
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 0 5 48
Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the Famine 0 0 1 30 1 3 15 87
Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution 0 2 9 140 7 14 54 667
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 1 3 6 27
Prosperous Interlude: Review Article 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 55
Punctuated Equilibria and Technological Progress 1 5 18 274 5 15 53 632
Reply to Peter Solar 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 5
Review: The Famine in Ireland 0 0 1 1 2 2 7 7
Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged 0 3 10 17 4 14 45 73
Technological Inertia in Economic History 0 2 7 95 4 9 31 353
Technological Progress and the Decline of European Mortality 0 0 0 125 2 2 10 266
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 2 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 1 5 38
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 3 4 7 506
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 27
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 2 2 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 2 2 4 8
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 1 1 6 132
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? 0 1 10 107 5 33 117 658
The Industrial Revolution and the economic history of technology: Lessons from the British experience, 1760-1850 0 1 1 125 2 3 12 437
The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Case Study 0 0 1 18 0 1 7 82
The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s The Institutional Revolution 0 0 1 12 2 2 6 57
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 2 16 238 3 12 51 794
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 2 5 40 145 9 29 169 556
The Power of Ideas 0 0 3 177 3 6 24 421
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 1 21 0 0 2 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 1 1 7 1 6 8 32
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation 0 1 11 36 0 9 34 96
The past and the future of innovation: Some lessons from economic history 0 1 9 105 5 10 47 382
The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution 0 0 10 204 3 5 35 848
The simple economics of Richard Nelson: A review essay 0 0 1 37 2 2 6 93
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 3 4 10 1,053
Three Centuries of Population Change 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 102
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700–1870: Theory and Evidence 0 1 4 107 1 7 20 329
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 0 0 121 2 5 16 499
Why “More Work for Mother?” Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945 0 0 1 16 2 4 11 55
Total Journal Articles 10 50 327 5,776 220 495 1,815 21,471


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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 7 20 92 608
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times 0 0 0 0 2 7 45 152
The Knowledge Economy in Development: Perspectives for Effective Partnerships 0 0 0 5 2 3 8 39
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress 0 0 0 0 15 27 126 1,124
Total Books 0 0 0 5 26 57 271 1,923


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Culture Versus Institutions in the Great Enrichment 0 0 1 1 8 14 31 31
Culture and Economics 1 4 18 74 9 15 35 222
Institutions and the Beginnings of Economic Growth in Eighteenth-Century Britain 0 0 0 11 2 4 9 38
Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation 0 0 0 16 1 4 8 74
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology 2 3 46 901 11 17 127 3,031
Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand 1 2 2 51 2 7 17 161
The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change 0 3 14 127 5 11 48 358
The Entrepreneur in History 0 1 2 29 3 20 38 188
The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth 1 4 28 181 2 8 66 521
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 7 47 2 3 25 167
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 5 18 37
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 0 3 298 6 15 24 841
Total Chapters 5 17 121 1,736 52 123 446 5,669


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