Joel Mokyr

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Joel Mokyr

Joel Mokyr (born July 26, 1946 in Leiden ) is an Israeli-American economic historian.

Life

Mokyr emigrated to Israel as a teenager, studied economics and history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and at Yale University , where he received his master's degree in 1972 and received his doctorate in economic history under William N. Parker in 1974 ( Industrial Growth and Stagnation in the Low Countries 1800 to 1850). In 1972/73 he was an instructor at Yale. He became Assistant Professor in 1974, Associate Professor in 1978 and Professor in 1980 at Northwestern University . He also teaches at Tel Aviv University .

He was visiting professor at Stanford (1979/80), Chicago (1981), Harvard (1982/83), Dublin (1986), at the Hebrew University (1993) and in Manchester (1996).

In 2006 he received the AH Heineken Prize for History . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an external member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , the Accademia dei Lincei and the British Academy . For 2015 he was awarded the Balzan Prize .

Mokyr was editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History from 1995 to 2003. He was president of the Economic History Association and editor of the Journal of Economic History.

Research areas

Mokyr looks at industrialization in the Netherlands and England, and more generally, why some countries are more economically successful than others and the role of science, education and technology in it. He is a representative of the interdisciplinary New Economic History . In particular, he took the view that in terms of technology , China could at least keep up with technological developments in Europe until around 1500, if not superior. However, the ruling Confucian bureaucracy sealed off the country from outside influences (including restrictions on shipping and the prohibition of building large treasure ships ) and prevented a creative competition of ideas.

Fonts

  • Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795-1850, Yale University Press, 1976
  • (Editor :) The Economics of the Industrial Revolution, Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985.
  • Why Ireland starved: a quantitative and analytical history of the Irish economy, 1800-1850, Allen and Unwin 1985
  • The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress, Oxford University Press, 1990
  • Twenty five centuries of technological change: a historical survey, Harwood Academic Publishers 1990
  • (Editor :) British Industrial Revolution. An Economic Perspective, Westview Press 1999
  • The gifts of Athena: Historical origins of the knowledge economy, Princeton University Press, 2002
  • Long-term economic growth and the history of technology, in: Ph. Aghion, S. Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, 1113–1180, Elsevier, 2005
  • Enlightened Economy: An economic history of Britain 1750–1850, Yale University Press 2009
  • (with Ralf Meisenzahl): The rate and direction of invention in the British Industrial Revolution: incentives and institutions, Cambridge, National Bureau of Economic Research 2011
  • A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. (Graz Schumpeter Lectures.) Princeton University Press 2016

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In The Lever of Riches (1990) and A Culture of Growth (2016)
personal data
SURNAME Mokyr, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer