The First Knowledge Economy. Human capital and the European economy, 1750-1850
Details:
- Author(s) Jacob, Margaret C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2014
- Pages 257pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Comparative international studies
- Name Knowledge inc transmission/networks
- Name Education - general issues
Countries:
- France
- Netherlands
- Belgium
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Argues for the central importance of scientific knowledge in Europe's economic transformation, 1750-1850 - 'armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology'. Chapters include: Introduction - knowledge and industrial development: the stakes'; 'A portrait of early industrial lives - the Watts and Boultons, science and entrepreneurship'; 'The knowledge economy and coal - how technological change happened'; 'Technical knowledge and making cotton king'; 'Textiles in Leeds - mechanical science on the factory floor'; 'The puzzle of French retardation - reform and its antecedents'; 'The puzzle of French retardation - restoration and reaction'; 'Education and the inculcation of industrial knowledge - the Low Countries, 1750-1830'