A Culture of Growth
by Joel Mokyr · first published 2016
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I know this isn't the place to chime in with a conversation about economics, but when has that stopped me before? I read Mokyr's book, A Culture of Growth [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/964805224 ]] a couple years ago and enjoyed it. I had a few nits about the content, but then again, I'm not a Nobel Prize winning economist, so maybe I…
on “Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to J. Mokyr, P. Aghion and P. Howitt” ↗…environment. There's the problem of unintended consequences, a/k/a "bite-back". http://www.worldcat.org/title/techno-fix-why-technology-wont... Joel Mokyr also looks into this problem in his new book The Culture of Growth: http://www.worldcat.org/title/culture-of-growth-the-origins-...
on “I’m Sorry Mr. Zuckerberg, but You Are Wrong” ↗…texts edited by Joel Mokyr (the Princeton Economic History of the World), notably Pomeranz, The Great Divergence, Clark's A Farewell to Alms, and Mokyr's on (not part of the series) Gifts of Athena, A Culture of Growth, The British Industrial Revolution, and Lever of Riches. The question of "why Europe and not China?" is literally The Needham Question, which occupied British sinologist Joseph Needham for his entire…
on “How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong” ↗Maybe I will try Mokyr. I saw his "A Culture of Growth" is available as an audio book. What do you think about that book? Thanks
on “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025” ↗