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A Culture of Growth The Origins of the Modern Economy (Graz Schumpeter Lectures)

Joel Mokyr

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what rema...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein highlighted the book as fascinating, noting that it explores the cultural factors behind economic growth.

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So let's talk about Joel Mocher's ideas for a minute. So Mocher is an economic historian. People should read his book, The Culture of Growth, which is really fascinating.

— Episode: We Know So Little About What Makes Human...

Episode: We Know So Little About What Makes Humanity Prospe...

Ezra Klein highlighted the book as fascinating, noting that it explores the cultural factors behind economic growth.

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So let's talk about Joel Mocher's ideas for a minute. So Mocher is an economic historian. People should read his book, The Culture of Growth, which is really fascinating.

Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

The host introduced Mokyr's bestknown work, noting its title and reading a passage where Mokyr argues that cultural changes enabled the explosion of technological progress in the West.

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Let me read a bit from his best known book. It's called A Culture of Growth, The Origins of the Modern Economy. He writes, the proposition I put forward here is that the explosion of technological pro...

— Episode: 666. This Is How Progress Happens

Episode: 666. This Is How Progress Happens

The host introduced Mokyr's bestknown work, noting its title and reading a passage where Mokyr argues that cultural changes enabled the explosion of technological progress in the West.

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Let me read a bit from his best known book. It's called A Culture of Growth, The Origins of the Modern Economy. He writes, the proposition I put forward here is that the explosion of technological progress in the West was made possible by cultural changes.

Culture affected technology both directly by changing attitudes toward the natural world and indirectly by creating and nurturing institutions that stimulated and supported the accumulation and diffusion of useful knowledge.

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