Screen LibraryThe enlightened economy：an economic history of Britain, 1700-1850
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The New economic history of Britain |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 564 p.: maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300124552 0300124554 |
| Index Number: | F156 |
| CLC: | F156.19 |
| Call Number: | F156.19/M716 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [490]-532) and index. Introduction: Ideology, knowledge, and institutions in economic change -- Prologue: the British economy in 1700 -- Enlightenment and economy -- Useful knowledge and technology -- An enlightened political economy -- Enlightenment and the industrial revolution -- The origins of British technological leadership -- Technological change in the industrial revolution -- Britain and the world: an open economy -- Agriculture in the age of enlightenment -- The service sectors: commerce and transport -- The service sectors: finance and personal services -- progress and productivity -- Demographic trans "This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing the importance of the intellectual sea changes of Britain's Age of Enlightenment. In a vigorous discussion, Mokyr goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics, and society to show that the beginnings of modern economic growth in Britain depen |