Technological Change
Brenner, Reuven, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Inflation and Invention
Brynjolfsson, Eric and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014)
- See also: EconTalk, Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age, February, 2014
Cipolla, Carlo, Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion
Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (2009)
Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 (Growth of the World Economy, 2)
Fogel, Robert, The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004)
Fogel, Robert, Railroads and American Economic Growth
Folsom, Burton, The Myth of the Robber Barons
- See also Henderson, David R. “The Robber Barons: Neither Robbers nor Barons”
Goldstone, Jack, Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850 (2008)
Hartwell, R. M., The Industrial Revolution
Higgs, Robert, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of Government
Jones, Eric The European Miracle
Landes, David, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (2003)
Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some are so Poor (1999)
Libecap, Gary, and Claudia Goldin, (eds.), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy
Macfarlane, Alan, The Invention of the Modern World
Macfarlane, Alan, The Origins of English Individualism
McCloskey, Deirdre, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010)
McCloskey, D. N., and Roderick Floud, (eds.), Economic History of Britain since 1700
McCloskey, D. N., (ed.) Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of American Economic History
McCusker, John and Russell Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Mokyr, Joel, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (2016)
- See also: EconTalk, Joel Mokyr on Growth, Innovation, and Stagnation, November 2013
Mokyr, Joel, (eds.), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective
Mokyr, Joel, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress (1992)
North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World (1973)
North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History
North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World
North, Douglass, Terry Anderson and Peter Hill, Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History
Rosenberg, Nathan and Leon Birdzell, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World
Rosenberg, Nathan, Inside the Black Box
Simon, Julian, Richard Easterlin and Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause: What Governed the Speed of Human Progress Through the Ages
Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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