Introduction. The Enlightened Economist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction. The Enlightened Economist 1
4. 1. Neither Feast nor Famine 7
5. 2. Progress, Useful Knowledge, and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution 33
6. Part I. Institutions
7. 3. Coercion and Exchange 71
8. 4. Meat Consumption in Nineteenth-Century New York 97
9. 5. Funding Empire 129
10. 6. Establishing a New Order 149
11. Part II. Innovation
12. 7. Increasing Market Concentration in British banking, 1885 to 1925 179
13. 8. The Catapult of Riches 201
14. 9. England’s Eighteenth-Century Demand for High-Quality Workmanship 225
15. 10. A Growth Agenda for Economic History 245
16. Part III. The Industrial Revolution
17. 11. Amidst Poverty and Prejudice 277
18. 12. How Britain Lost Its Competitive Edge 307
19. 13. Regulating Child Labor 337
20. 14. Decomposing the Wage Gap 379
21. 15. The Context of English Industrialization 397
22. Contributors 411
23. Index 417