ISBN:

• 9780691120133
• 0691120137

Description: xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-338) and index.

Contents:

• Technology and the problem of human knowledge
• The industrial enlightenment : the taproot of economic progress
• The Industrial Revolution and beyond
• Technology and the factory system
• Knowledge, health, and the household
• The political economy of knowledge : innovation and resistance in economic history
• Institutions, knowledge, and economic growth.

LCCN: 2002025105

Control Number: 279283

Subjects:

• Economic development -- History.
• Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- History.