Contents: Part I Theory and evidence on finance and growth -- 1. Financial development and innovation-led growth … between the financial system and economic growth. Containing chapters on theory, empirical work and historic accounts, this is …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth …