Institutions, innovation, and industrialization : essays in economic history and development / edited by Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V.C. Nye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greif, Avner, 1955- editor.

Kiesling, Laura Lynne, 1965- editor.

Nye, John V. C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Physical Description:

vi, 430 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction : The enlightened economist / Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V.C. Nye

Neither feast nor famine : England before the Industrial Revolution / Cormac Ó Gráda

Progress, useful knowledge, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution / Joel Mokyr

Coercion and exchange : how did markets evolve? / Avner Grief

Meat consumption in nineteenth-century New York : Quantity, distribution, and quality, or notes on the "antebellum puzzle" / Gergely Baics

Funding empire : Risk, diversification, and the underwriting of early modern sovereign loans / Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth

Establishing a new order : The growth of the state and the decline of witch trials in France / Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama, and John V.C. Nye

Increasing market concentration in British banking, 1885 to 1925 / Fabio Braggion, Narly R.D. Dwarkasing, and Lyndon Moore

The catapult of riches : The airplane as a creative macroinvention / Peter B. Meyer

England's eighteenth-century demand for high-quality workmanship : Evidence from apprenticeship, 1710-1770 / Karine van der Beek

A growth agenda for economic history / Rick Szostak

Amidst poverty and prejudice : Black and Irish Civil War veterans / Hoyt Bleakley, Louis Cain, and Joseph Ferrie

How Britain lost its competitive edge : Competence in the Second Industrial Revolution / Ralf R. Meisenzahl

Regulating child labor : The European experince / Carolyn Tuttle and Simone A. Wegge

Decomposing the wage gap : Within- and between-occupation gender wage gaps at a nineteenth-century textile firm / Joyce Burnette

The context of English industrialization / Eric Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691157344

0691157340

OCLC:

902870814