Joel Mokyr
Encyclopedia
Joel Mokyr is an American economic historian. He is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University
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He holds a joint appointment in economics as well as a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv
. He is particularly interested in the economic history of technology and population, but considers himself a general-purpose economic historian. A former editor of the Journal of Economic History, he served as the editor in chief of the Oxford
Encyclopedia of Economic History, and continues to be editor in chief of a book series published by Princeton University Press, The Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World. A former chair of the Economics Department and President of the Economic History Association, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a number of comparable institutions in Europe.
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
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He holds a joint appointment in economics as well as a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
. He is particularly interested in the economic history of technology and population, but considers himself a general-purpose economic historian. A former editor of the Journal of Economic History, he served as the editor in chief of the Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
Encyclopedia of Economic History, and continues to be editor in chief of a book series published by Princeton University Press, The Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World. A former chair of the Economics Department and President of the Economic History Association, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a number of comparable institutions in Europe.
Works
Books:- 1976: Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795-1850
- 1983: Why Ireland Starved: An Analytical and Quantitative Study of Irish Poverty, 1800-1851
- 1985: The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (ed.)
- 1990: Twenty Five Centuries of Technological Change: An Historical Survey
- 1990: The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
- 1991: The Vital One: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Hughes (ed.)
- 1993: The British Industrial Revolution: an Economic Perspective (ed.)
- 2002: The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
- 2003: The Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Economic History (Editor in chief)
- 2009: The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (Co-editor)
- 2009: The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850
- TBA: The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essay in Honor of Jan de Vries (Co-editor with Laura Cruz)
- TBA: Neither Fluke nor Destiny: Evolutionary Models in Economic History