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Appendix to "Precocious Albion: a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution" 0 0 0 144 0 0 0 88
Apprenticeship and Technological Progress in the Malthusian World 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 154
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 87 1 1 2 87
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 82 0 2 6 109
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 101 2 4 10 90
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 0 88 4 4 5 89
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy 0 0 1 89 0 0 5 150
Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000 12 144 144 144 22 78 78 78
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 1 4 39 1 2 7 93
Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850 0 0 0 1 1 5 19 1,691
From poor to poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the famine: a new look 0 0 0 7 0 1 3 22
Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860: evidence from the East India company army 0 2 2 18 0 2 3 63
Living standards in Ireland and Britain, 1800-1850: the East India Company Army data 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 34
New developments in Irish population history 1700-1850 0 0 2 12 1 2 5 42
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 1 1 4 396 5 7 27 760
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 149 2 2 3 62
Roots of the Industrial Revolution 0 0 1 275 1 2 9 1,154
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 0 0 2 23 4 4 12 70
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 1 1 4 135 10 11 47 161
Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged 6 7 8 108 11 12 16 53
The Deadly Fungus: An Econometric Investigation into the Short Term Demographic Impact of the Irish Famine 0 0 2 95 1 2 6 361
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 281
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 4 5 11 208 13 17 35 338
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 3 4 7 172 7 10 21 327
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 0 1 133 3 5 11 228
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization 0 0 0 91 0 0 3 166
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 76
The height of Irishmen and Englishmen in the 1770's: some evidence from the East India Company Army records 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 25
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 1 2 31
Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence 0 0 2 526 1 1 9 1,228
Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: the view from Economic History 0 0 0 152 4 4 6 407
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 1 1 1 46 2 2 10 140
Total Working Papers 28 166 197 3,383 102 187 376 8,837


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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 0 2 79 2 2 8 260
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 1 1 2 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? 1 1 4 109 3 4 15 810
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 5 40
Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. By Michael Rothschild. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Pp. xv, 423. $24.95 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 58
Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution 2 3 3 15 3 4 12 137
British Historical Statistics. By Brian R. Mitchell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xi, 886. $135.00 0 0 0 66 0 0 1 198
Cardwell's Law and the political economy of technological progress 9 9 21 335 21 22 50 1,170
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy 1 1 6 60 3 9 27 338
Cognitive rules, institutions, and economic growth: Douglass North and beyond 3 3 3 58 5 5 7 133
Commentary: global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 63
Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? 3 3 9 57 4 8 19 105
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth 8 8 10 43 13 13 22 114
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 0 32
Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution 1 1 3 78 5 5 7 286
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion 0 0 1 40 0 0 1 180
Discussion 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 7
Discussion 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Discussion 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12
Disparities, Gaps, and Abysses: Review Article 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 65
Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 15
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 3 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 2 2 4 327
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 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 0 4 628
Emigration and poverty in prefamine Ireland 0 0 1 132 1 2 5 294
Europe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Evolutionary Biology, Technological Change and Economic History 0 0 0 0 4 4 12 268
Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution 0 0 0 17 1 1 2 72
Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe 0 0 2 105 0 0 4 456
Has the industrial revolution been crowded out? Some reflections on Crafts and Williamson 0 0 0 264 0 0 3 501
Height and Health in the United Kingdom 1815-1860: Evidence from the East India Company Army 0 1 1 85 0 1 4 287
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 0 0 2 124
Human Capital, Useful Knowledge, and Long-Term Economic Growth 1 1 4 38 3 4 8 102
In defence of generalized Darwinism 2 3 4 113 4 9 14 358
Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth 8 8 8 27 17 18 19 53
Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach 1 1 1 75 2 2 2 354
Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries, 1800–1850 7 7 7 8 13 13 15 48
Industrialization in Two Languages 0 0 0 3 2 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 2 2 3 67 2 2 4 308
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 7 0 0 1 26
Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey 0 1 3 56 3 5 10 123
Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment 9 9 10 75 43 43 51 257
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’ 2 2 3 15 3 3 4 23
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth 3 3 8 217 8 8 17 921
Introduction 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 11
Irish History with the Potato 0 1 3 4 2 4 8 11
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 0 13 0 0 0 59
Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790—1850 2 2 3 83 2 3 7 180
Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: a book roundtable 0 0 0 3 4 4 4 22
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 2 2 3 34
La Grande Quantification 0 0 1 9 0 0 3 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)* 1 1 1 28 4 6 6 127
La Revolución Industrial y La Nueva Historia Económica (y II)* 1 1 1 18 2 2 3 53
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 0 0 0 69
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 0 40 1 1 1 79
New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850 0 0 2 27 2 2 9 84
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 1 1 44
Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the Famine 1 1 1 30 3 3 5 77
Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution 0 0 14 135 5 8 49 633
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 0 0 0 49
Punctuated Equilibria and Technological Progress 9 9 16 266 21 22 33 602
Reply to Peter Solar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Review: The Famine in Ireland 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged 6 6 7 13 19 20 38 51
Technological Inertia in Economic History 4 4 7 93 7 8 14 331
Technological Progress and the Decline of European Mortality 0 0 1 125 2 2 6 259
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 1 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 1 1 1 11 2 2 3 35
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 1 226 0 1 2 501
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 0 5 0 0 2 21
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 1 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 1 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 1 1 38 2 4 5 130
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? 3 3 10 104 9 18 42 569
The Industrial Revolution and the economic history of technology: Lessons from the British experience, 1760-1850 0 0 1 124 3 4 5 429
The Industrial Revolution in the Low Countries in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Case Study 1 1 1 18 1 1 3 78
The Institutional Revelation: A comment on Douglas W. Allen’s The Institutional Revolution 1 1 1 12 2 2 2 53
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 7 8 11 230 10 13 31 759
The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution 5 11 42 123 29 46 163 462
The Power of Ideas 2 2 3 176 11 11 14 408
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 92
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 1 1 25
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain'S Industrialisation 5 5 6 31 7 11 18 75
The past and the future of innovation: Some lessons from economic history 5 5 10 101 13 14 25 350
The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution 0 0 2 194 3 4 15 818
The simple economics of Richard Nelson: A review essay 1 1 1 37 2 2 2 89
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 2 3 9 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 1 2 104 3 5 8 314
What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective 0 0 0 121 0 4 5 488
Why “More Work for Mother?” Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870–1945 1 1 1 16 2 2 4 47
Total Journal Articles 120 133 277 5,620 352 435 939 20,217


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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy 0 0 0 0 26 27 61 552
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times 0 0 0 0 9 17 27 126
The Knowledge Economy in Development: Perspectives for Effective Partnerships 0 0 1 5 0 0 3 32
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress 0 0 0 0 47 50 76 1,054
Total Books 0 0 1 5 82 94 167 1,764


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Culture Versus Institutions in the Great Enrichment 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 6
Culture and Economics 8 8 8 64 8 8 10 195
Institutions and the Beginnings of Economic Growth in Eighteenth-Century Britain 0 0 1 11 0 1 4 32
Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 66
Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology 24 24 34 882 49 49 77 2,961
Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand 0 0 2 49 1 2 7 146
The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change 4 7 10 121 8 12 24 328
The Entrepreneur in History 0 0 2 27 1 2 7 152
The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth 7 11 23 170 12 20 53 486
The Great Synergy: The European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth 3 3 5 44 5 7 10 151
The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 5 5 6 25
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions 0 1 2 297 0 2 5 820
Total Chapters 46 54 87 1,681 93 113 209 5,368


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