Joel Mokyr is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also a senior adjunct professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
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Before the Industrial Revolution all techniques in use were supported by very narrow epistemic bases.
Joel Mokyr, "The knowledge society: Theoretical and historical underpinnings." AdHoc Expert Group on Knowledge Systems, United Nations, NY.
Hooykaas (1972, p. 100) writes that especially commercial and industrial cities were intellectually dynamic, far more so than sleepy university towns.
Joel Mokyr (2016), A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. p. 174
The distinction between micro- and macroinventions is useful because, as historians of technology emphasize, the word first is hazardous in this literature. .
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Issey MiyakeAlso won honorary doctorate from University of Lyon-II
George StiglerAlso won Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Jerome BrunerAlso won Balzan Prize
Jacques Le GoffAlso won Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
Pierre DeligneAlso won Balzan Prize
George AkerlofAlso won Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelAbout this person
Joel Mokyr is an American and Israeli economic historian and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also a senior adjunct professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. He was awarded half a share of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2025 "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress."
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