Institutions, innovation, and industrialization essays in economic history and development - Greif, Avner 1955-; Kiesling, Laura Lynne 1965-; Nye, John V. C. (Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 2015)
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 -- II. Innovation. 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 -- III. The Industrial Revolution. 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 experience 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Economic history