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The First Knowledge Economy - Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850 (Paperback, New)
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The First Knowledge Economy - Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850 (Paperback, New)
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the
sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob
here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge
in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to
1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and
western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in
which minds, books, lectures and education become central. She
shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the
desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial
culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts
how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative
engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out
of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in
the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform
the economic destiny of western Europe.
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