elastically supplied, by credit expansion for example (as Schumpeter observed). Attributing growth to investment, therefore … society of bourgeois dignity and liberty---did as well as the Protestants (in Amsterdam, for example). Ben Franklin, for …, or they depreciate. They cannot accumulate from an age of piracy to an age of industry. Yet modern growth theory …

beginning the factor of 16. The slow British growth in the 18th century proposed by Crafts and Harley is unbelievable, but … however one assigns growth within the period 1700-1900 it is now plain that something unprecedented was happening. Only non … continuation of European growth in the 19th and 20th centuries that is strange and new. Explaining the Great Divergence requires …

sestet (“The Bourgeois Era”) is a defense, one can expect not to find arguments that globalization is bad for the poor, or … economists. The book present does so, and finds them surprisingly weak. The residual is ideas, in particular the Bourgeois … capitalism. One is already published (The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce 2006), and this is volume 2. Volume 3 …

faster population growth during peacetime than in Europe. But it also meant that China was relatively fragile in the event of …, and population growth in both China and Europe. …

for long term economic growth. The transmission of property through the market however remains understudied, especially in …

Poor Law” – combined to make an Industrial Revolution more likely. Essentially, industrialization is the result of having a …

Long run economic growth has again become a major focus of economic theory. A perception of technological change as an … growth paths. Economic history has also long been interested in long-run economic growth. This paper engages in a dialog … between growth theory and the historical literature on the industrial revolution in Britain and America’s surge to …