00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612317957 Buklod 20161209121135.0 aa r ||| u ta 140801s2015 njuab rb |001 0|eng d 9780691157344 (cloth) (iLib)UPD-00259713628 DLC DECON rda eng DMLUC HC 21 I57 2015 Institutions, innovation, and industrialization essays in economic history and development edited by Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling & John V.C. Nye. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2015] vi, 430 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Economic history. Greif, Avner 1955- editor. Kiesling, Laura Lynne 1965- editor. Nye, John V. C. editor. Contributor biographical information |u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014947503-b.html Table of contents only |u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014947503-t.html FO UPD DECON HC 21 I57 2015 Book