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Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A culture of growth

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

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Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel … ethos of modern science. The book is a significant contribution to the growing literature that links culture and economics …. This review discusses Mokyr’s historical analysis in relation to the following questions: What is culture and how should we …

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Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A culture of growth

Spolaore, Enrico - In: Journal of economic literature 58 (2020) 3, pp. 777-792

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How deep are the roots of economic development?

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

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