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The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.
W. Ashworth,David S. Landes +1 more
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This article is published in The Economic Journal.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 251 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Technological change.read more
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Development Dynamics: Economic Integration and the Demographic Transition
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of economic integration on economic development and the demographic transition is examined, and it is shown that greater integration between regions is instrumental in changing rates of return, which generates an industrial revolution and provokes changes in child bearing behavior.
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The Rise of Modern, Industrial Society The cognitive-developmental approach as a new key to solve the most fascinating riddle in world history
TL;DR: In this article, a cognitive-developmental approach, as developed in my structure-genetic sociology, has the tools to explain why the Western World and not Asia developed the modern, industrial society and why the western culture elaborated in the same period of time industrialism, sciences, enlightenment, democracy, and humanism.