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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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Technological infrastructure and international competitiveness
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of new developments in the theory of international trade and confronts them with recent empirical results is made, concluding that the disequilibria in international trade will be persistent and that for laggard economy the free trade doctrine may be unduly restrictive.
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On the Nature of Transitions: the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic and the Neolithic Revolution
TL;DR: The authors discusses two major revolutions in the history of humankind, namely, the Neolithic and the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic revolutions, and uses the course of the first one as a general analogy to study the second, and the older one.
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Polanyi's “Double Movement”: The Belle Époques of British and U.S. Hegemony Compared:
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of the double movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (the belle epoque and collapse of British hegemony) with the double movements of late twentieth and early twenty-first century is presented, showing that important differences exist due to differences in the nature of the hegemonic state and the greater role of subordinate forces in constraining the movement toward self-regulating markets in the late twentieth century.
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Imperialism and Postcolonialism
TL;DR: The authors explores recent intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history, including interdisciplinary and post-colonisation perspectives, and explores the links between empire and domestic history, looking at the interconnections and comparisons between empires and power within wider developments in world history, covering the period from the Roman to the present American empire.