04276cam a2200517 i 4500 18250222 BJBSDDR 20260128100948.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 140801s2015 njuab rb 001 0 eng d 2014947503 GBB504299 bnb 017009167 Uk 9780691157344 (hardback) 0691157340 (hardback) 18250222 (OCoLC)902870814 AKC eng AKC rda OCLCO YDXCP BTCTA BDX CDX MEU NHM UKMGB IAK OCLCF DLC eng lccopycat HC 21 I59 2015 330.9 Institutions, innovation, and industrialization : essays in economic history and development / edited by Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling & John V.C. Nye. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015. vi, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc 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. 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. Economic history. Historia económica 27 Greif, Avner, 1955- editor 45767 Kiesling, Laura Lynne, 1965- editor. 45769 Nye, John V. C., editor 45770 Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014947503-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014947503-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014947503-t.html 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK LLH 125767 125767 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-11-05 0 HC 21 I59 2015 00000196718 2025-11-05 20:21:00 1 2025-11-05 BK