The Gifts Of Athena by Joel Mokyr
Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
It argues that modern economic growth emerged from the creation and diffusion of “useful knowledge”—the fusion of propositional insights about nature with prescriptive techniques—rather than from capital accumulation alone. The narrative highlights an Industrial Enlightenment that lowered access costs to information and built institutions—scientific societies, publications, patents, and education—that linked science to technology and created self-reinforcing feedback between discovery and invention. It explains Europe’s lead as a product of these cultural and institutional changes and analyzes the persistent gap between the high social returns to knowledge and the weaker private incentives to produce and share it.
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- 2002
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- English
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