"During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained … argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the … transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500–1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive “market for …

Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise … of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the … most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the …