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082			_a330.94 0253 _bJAC [ Shelf 74 ]
100			_aJacob, Margaret C., _d 1943-
245			_aThe first knowledge economy : _bhuman capital and the European economy, 1750-1850 / _cMargaret C. Jacob.
264			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014
300			_aix, 257 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
505			_aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: knowledge and industrial development: the stakes; 1. A portrait of early industrial lives: the Watts and Boultons, science and entrepreneurship; 2. The knowledge economy and coal: how technological change happened; 3. Technical knowledge and making cotton king; 4. Textiles in Leeds: Mechanical science on the factory floor; 5. The puzzle of French retardation: reform and its antecedents; 6. The puzzle of French retardation: restoration and reaction; 7. Education and the inculcation of industrial knowledge: the Low Countries, 1750-1830.
520			_a"Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in breaking the Malthusian trap during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures and education become central. She shows how, 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. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of western Europe"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Knowledge and Industrial Development: The Stakes By "the first knowledge economy" we refer to the era of the Industrial Revolution, from roughly the 1760s to the 1850s, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe, with particular attention to Belgium"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aIndustrialization _z Europe _x History.
650			_aTechnological innovations _x Economic aspects _z Europe _x History.
650			_aEconomic development _z Europe _x History.
650			_aHISTORY / Europe / General. _2 bisacsh
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