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Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution?
The concept of a new Industrial Revolution has recently become of great interest to general economists of all persuasions. For example, the New Growth Theory has placed renewed emphasis on the importance of technological change in modern economic growth, and a number of authors have suggested that we are entering a new period of technological advances that could profoundly affect the world economy. ; In an article based on comments at the Tenth District Monetary Policy Roundtable, Mr. Mokyr looks at the events of our time in relation to events of the British Industrial Revolution. He cautions ...
Conference Paper
Demographic shocks: the view from history: discussion
I must admit from the onset that I cannot really be very critical of Massimo Livi-Bacci's work, because much if not most of what I know of historical demography I learned from him, and thus if I were overly critical of him, I would be in the position of spitting into the well from which I have drunk. This is a nice and well-argued paper, although for those of us who have been keeping up with Livi-Bacci's books, there is little here that we did not know before or at least were prepared to believe. But his essay, all the same, is so informed and so chock-full of insights that it inspired me to ...