The Lever of Riches Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

• Main Author: Mokyr, Joel
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Oxford University Press 1992; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Series: OUP Catalogue
• Subjects: Economic aspects; Economic development; Economic Development and Growth; Economic History; Economics; History; Technological Change; Research and Development; Technological innovations; progress; technological creativity; inventions; economic success; social environment; physical environment

In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies—such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution—pass...