Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Part I. Evolution, Culture, and Economic History
6. Chapter 1. Culture and Economics 3
7. Chapter 2. Nature and Technology 16
8. Chapter 3. Cultural Evolution and Economics 22
9. Chapter 4. Choice-based Cultural Evolution 34
10. Chapter 5. Biases in Cultural Evolution 43
11. Part II. Cultural Entrepreneurs and Economic Change, 1500–1700
12. Chapter 6. Cultural Entrepreneurs and Choice-based Cultural Evolution 59
13. Chapter 7. Francis Bacon, Cultural Entrepreneur 70
14. Chapter 8. Isaac Newton, Cultural Entrepreneur 99
15. Part III. Innovation, Competition, and Pluralism in Europe, 1500–1700
16. Chapter 9. Cultural Choice in Action: Human Capital and Religion 119
17. Chapter 10. Cultural Change and the Growth of Useful Knowledge, 1500–1700 142
18. Chapter 11. Fragmentation, Competition, and Cultural Change 165
19. Chapter 12. Competition and the Republic of Letters 179
20. Part IV. Prelude to the Enlightenment
21. Chapter 13. Puritanism and British Exceptionalism 227
22. Chapter 14. A Culture of Progress 247
23. Chapter 15. The Enlightenment and Economic Change 267
24. Part V. Cultural Change in the East and West
25. Chapter 16. China and Europe 287
26. Chapter 17. China and the Enlightenment 321
27. Epilogue. Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth 339
28. References 343
29. Index 381