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The Lever of Riches
Nobel Prize in economics goes to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Joel Mokyr is an economic historian, and best known for his pioneering work in explaining the Industrial Revolution in England.  Here are his best-known works .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good thread o...

The case for a Nobel to Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Here is Mokyr in scholar.google.com .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  You can ask Joel just about anything concerning the Industrial Revolution and he will have an amazingly well-thought answer.  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good threa...

The Gifts of Athena
Nobel Prize in economics goes to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Joel Mokyr is an economic historian, and best known for his pioneering work in explaining the Industrial Revolution in England.  Here are his best-known works .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good thread o...

The case for a Nobel to Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Here is Mokyr in scholar.google.com .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  You can ask Joel just about anything concerning the Industrial Revolution and he will have an amazingly well-thought answer.  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good threa...

A Culture of Growth
Nobel Prize in economics goes to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Joel Mokyr is an economic historian, and best known for his pioneering work in explaining the Industrial Revolution in England.  Here are his best-known works .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good thread o...

The case for a Nobel to Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Here is Mokyr in scholar.google.com .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  You can ask Joel just about anything concerning the Industrial Revolution and he will have an amazingly well-thought answer.  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good threa...

Enlightened Economy An Economic History Of Britain 17001850
Nobel Prize in economics goes to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Joel Mokyr is an economic historian, and best known for his pioneering work in explaining the Industrial Revolution in England.  Here are his best-known works .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good thread o...

The case for a Nobel to Joel Mokyr (2025-10-13)

Here is Mokyr in scholar.google.com .  Read The Lever of Riches and The Gifts of Athena and A Culture of Growth .  I have benefited most from The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  You can ask Joel just about anything concerning the Industrial Revolution and he will have an amazingly well-thought answer.  He has a new book coming out in November , with Tabellini and Greif.  It is correct to consider him as an “Enlightenment thinker.”  Brian Albrecht has a good threa...

A Culture of Growth
What I’ve been reading (2016-11-29)

My copy of Joel Mokyr, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy has arrived.  It is a very good statement of how political fragmentation and intensified intellectual competition drove modernity and the Industrial Revolution.

*A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy* (2016-07-28)

That is the new Joel Mokyr book , due out in November, file under Arrived in My Pile.

The enlightened economy
Joel Mokyr on living standards during the Industrial Revolution (2010-02-15)

That is from Mokyr's new and notable The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 .  The obvious question of course is why so many people moved into cities.  Did " new goods " make the urban living standard higher than some measures might suggest?  Was it to avoid boredom?  To avoid "rural idiocy" and invest in future IQ externalities for children ?

*The Enlightened Economy* (2010-01-31)

The subtitle is An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850 and the author is Joel Mokyr.  This is now the most comprehensive and indeed the currently definitive history of the British Industrial Revolution.  Here is a short excerpt:

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