Technological Change

 

Brenner, Reuven, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Inflation and Invention

Brynjolfsson, Eric and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014)

Cipolla, Carlo, Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion

Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (2009)

Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 (Growth of the World Economy, 2)

Fogel, Robert, The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004)

Fogel, Robert, Railroads and American Economic Growth

Folsom, Burton, The Myth of the Robber Barons

Goldstone, Jack, Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850 (2008)

Hartwell, R. M., The Industrial Revolution

Hayek, F.A. (ed.) Capitalism and the Historians

Higgs, Robert, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of Government

Jones, Eric The European Miracle

Landes, David, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (2003)

Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some are so Poor (1999)

Libecap, Gary, and Claudia Goldin, (eds.), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy

Macfarlane, Alan, The Invention of the Modern World

Macfarlane, Alan, The Origins of English Individualism

McCloskey, Deirdre, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010)

McCloskey, Deirdre, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (2017)

McCloskey, D. N., and Roderick Floud, (eds.), Economic History of Britain since 1700

McCloskey, D. N., (ed.) Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of American Economic History

McCusker, John and Russell Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789

Mokyr, Joel, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (2016)

Mokyr, Joel, (eds.), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective

Mokyr, Joel, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (1992)

North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World (1973)

North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History

North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World

North, Douglass, Terry Anderson and Peter Hill, Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History

Rosenberg, Nathan and Leon Birdzell, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World

Rosenberg, Nathan, Inside the Black Box

Simon, Julian, Richard Easterlin and Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause: What Governed the Speed of Human Progress Through the Ages

Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

 

 

 

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