[PDF.62wf] The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy

The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Industrial Enlightenment|By Kevin O'Shaughnessy|In The Gifts of Athena, Mokyr argues for the importance of what he terms ‘useful knowledge’ in industrial Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This useful knowledge, as opposed to purely speculative thought, and the access to that knowledge were central to the success of British industrialism. Mokyr| || One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003| || Winner of the 2003 Don K. Price Award|

"For most economists, Mr. Mokyr included, the Industrial Revolution is categorically different from everything that preceded

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in ...

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