Institutions, innovation, and industrialization : essays in economic history and development /
edited by Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling & John V.C. Nye.
- vi, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : The enlightened economist / Neither feast nor famine : England before the Industrial Revolution / Progress, useful knowledge, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution / Coercion and exchange : how did markets evolve? / Meat consumption in nineteenth-century New York : Quantity, distribution, and quality, or notes on the "antebellum puzzle" / Funding empire : Risk, diversification, and the underwriting of early modern sovereign loans / Establishing a new order : The growth of the state and the decline of witch trials in France / Increasing market concentration in British banking, 1885 to 1925 / The catapult of riches : The airplane as a creative macroinvention / England's eighteenth-century demand for high-quality workmanship : Evidence from apprenticeship, 1710-1770 / A growth agenda for economic history / Amidst poverty and prejudice : Black and Irish Civil War veterans / How Britain lost its competitive edge : Competence in the Second Industrial Revolution / Regulating child labor : The European experience / Decomposing the wage gap : Within- and between-occupation gender wage gaps at a nineteenth-century textile firm / The context of English industrialization / Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V.C. Nye ; Cormac Ó Gráda ; Joel Mokyr ; Avner Grief ; Gergely Baics ; Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth ; Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama, and John V.C. Nye -- II. Innovation. Fabio Braggion, Narly R.D. Dwarkasing, and Lyndon Moore ; Peter B. Meyer ; Karine van der Beek ; Rick Szostak -- III. The Industrial Revolution. Hoyt Bleakley, Louis Cain, and Joseph Ferrie ; Ralf R. Meisenzahl ; Carolyn Tuttle and Simone A. Wegge ; Joyce Burnette ; Eric Jones.
The book explores how institutions, technological innovation, and knowledge shaped economic development and the Industrial Revolution. It examines the role of stable political and legal systems, the diffusion of useful knowledge, and the incentives for innovation in enabling sustained economic growth. Through historical case studies, the essays show how the interaction between social structures, markets, and technological progress drove industrialization, particularly in Europe, highlighting the critical link between institutional frameworks and economic transformation.