Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment

Joel Mokyr

doi:10.1007/s11293-016-9496-4

Institutions and the Origins of the Great Enrichment

Joel Mokyr^*

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Abstract

The origins of modern economic growth and the Industrial Revolution that triggered it can be found in the cultural and institutional developments in early modern Europe. In this era the Republic of Letters emerged as a transnational community that solved many of the incentive problems that plagued the creation and diffusion of science and technology, and paved the way to the Industrial Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	243-259
Number of pages	17
Journal	Atlantic Economic Journal
Volume	44
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-016-9496-4
State	Published - Jun 1 2016

Keywords

Economic growth
Industrial revolution
Technological change

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Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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