The first knowledge economy : human capital and the European economy, 1750 - 1850
Margaret C. Jacob
| Year of publication: |
2014
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| Authors: | Jacob, Margaret C. |
| Publisher: |
Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Subject: | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | Economic history | Industrialisierung | Industrialization | Technischer Fortschritt | Technological change | Humankapital | Human capital | Europa | Europe | Großbritannien | United Kingdom | Westeuropa | Western Europe | Nordeuropa | Informationsgesellschaft | Wirtschaftsentwicklung | Geschichte 1750-1850 | 1750-1850 |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [assets.cambridge.org] |
| Extent: | IX, 257 S. Ill., Kt. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Quellen- und Literaturverz. S. 225 - 246 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Machine generated contents note: Introduction: knowledge and industrial development: the stakes; 1. A portrait of early industrial lives: the Watts and Boultons, science and entrepreneurship; 2. The knowledge economy and coal: how technological change happened; 3. Technical knowledge and making cotton king; 4. Textiles in Leeds: Mechanical science on the factory floor; 5. The puzzle of French retardation: reform and its antecedents; 6. The puzzle of French retardation: restoration and reaction; 7. Education and the inculcation of industrial knowledge: the Low Countries, 1750-1830. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-61983-8 ; 978-1-107-04401-2 |
| Classification: | Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Europäische Geschichte 1492-1789 ; Europäische Geschichte 1789-1815 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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