Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen die sozialen, ökonomischen und institutionellen Wirkungen technologischer Umbrüche: Welchen Einfluss haben die neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien auf den Wandel unserer Gesellschaft? Wie wirken sich neue Vernetzungs- und Versorgungstechnologien...

This study provides a unified growth theory to correctly predict the initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...

Did the outbreak of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars influence technical change during the Industrial Revolution? We address this question by investigating an instance of state intervention into the market for inventions from 1793-1820: the introduction of a new proviso into British...