Title: Technological Revolutions in Europe : historical perspectives
Abstract:Introduction: culture, institutions and technological transitions, Maxine Berg, Kristine Bruland. Part 1 Technology, cultures and political economy: East is east and west is west, David S. Landes The ...Introduction: culture, institutions and technological transitions, Maxine Berg, Kristine Bruland. Part 1 Technology, cultures and political economy: East is east and west is west, David S. Landes The political economy of technological change - resistance and innovation in economic history, Joel Mokyr. Part 2 Cultures of invention: The cultural foundations of early industrialization - a summary of the project and its conclusions, Margaret C. Jacob Science, practice, and innovation in the age of natural dyes, 1750-1860, Robert Fox James Watt, heroic invention and the idea of the industrial revolution, Christine MacLeod. Part 3 The curious history and imminent demise of the challenge and response model, Trevor Griffiths, Philip Hunt, Patrick O'Brien Product innovation in core consumer industries in eighteenth-century Britain, Maxine Berg. Part 4 Learning, skills and boundaries: Skills, learning and the international diffusion of technology - a perspective on Scandinavian industrialization, Kristine Bruland Kinship and the transmission of skills - bar iron production in Britain and sweden, 1500-1860, Chris Evans, Goran Ryden Why change to steam power? institutional constraints, risk-aversion and path-dependence in the Swedish sawmill industry, 1850-1900, Alf O. Johnsson An old production method mobilizes for self-defence, Francis Sejersted technology, trade and wage inequalities in the late nineteenth-century, Nick von Tunzelmann, Edward anderson. Part 5 The birth of a network technology - the first French railway system, Francois Caron Patent institutions, industrial organization, and early technological change - Britain and the United states, 1790-1850, B. Zorina Khan, Kenneth L. SokoloffRead More
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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