A Culture of Growth — Joel Mokyr — Similar Books & Further Reading

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• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. — Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson.
• Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice. — Alexander, Amir.
• Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World. — Alexander, Amir.
• Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations. — Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel
• The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science. — Bala, Arun.
• The Evolution of Technology — Basalla, George
• Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. — Bateson, Gregory
• Resistance to New Technology. — Bauer, Martin
• The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848 — Berg, Maxine.
• Political Competition, Innovation, and Growth. — Bernholz, Peter, Manfred Streit, and Roland Vaubel
• The Meme Machine. — Blackmore, Susan.
• The Colonizer’s Model of the World — Blaut, James M.
• A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment. — Blom, Philip
• Chinese Thought, Society, and Science — Bodde, Derk.
• Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution. — Bowles, Samuel.
• A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. — Bowles, Samuel, and Gintis, Herbert.
• Culture and the Evolutionary Process. — Boyd, Robert, and Peter J. Richerson.
• The Origins and Evolution of Cultures. — Boyd, Robert, and Peter J. Richerson.
• The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties — Brook, Timothy.
• A Social History of Knowledge. — Burke, Peter.
• The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Growth and Origin — Bury, J. B
• Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. — Chow, Kai-Wing.
• Generation: Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth. — Cobb, Matthew.
• How Modern Science Came into the World. — Cohen, H. Floris.
• The Collapse of Chaos. — Cohen, Jack, and Ian Stewart.
• Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age — Cook, Harold J.
• The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. — Cowan, Brian.
• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. — Darwin, Charles.
• Religion, Technology and the Great and Little Divergences. — Davids, Karel.
• Discipline and Experience: the Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution. — Dear, Peter.
• Man and Nature in the Renaissance. — Debus, Allen G.
• The Beginning ofInfinity: Explanations that Transform the World. — Deutsch, David
• The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible. — Devlin, Keith.
• The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. — De Vries, Jan.
• Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism. — Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, and Margaret C.
• The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. — Eisenstein, Elizabeth.
• The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. — Feingold, Mordechai.
• The Enlightenment: History of an Idea — Ferrone, Vincenzo.
• Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything. — Findlen, Paula.
• Civilization and Its Discontent. — Freud, Sigmund
• A History of Chinese Civilization — Gernet, Jacques.
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Gibbon, Edward.
• The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay on the History of Scientific Ideas. — Gillispie, Charles Coulston.
• The Vanity of Dogmatizing. — Glanvill, Joseph.
• Renaissances: The One or the Many? — Goody, Jack.
• Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade — Greif, Avner.
• The StructuralTransformation of the Public Sphere. — Habermas, Jürgen
• The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution — Harkness, Deborah.
• The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do — Harris, Judith Rich
• Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World. — Headley, John M.
• Culture, Evolution, and the Puzzle of Human Cooperation. — Henrich, Joseph, and Natalie Henrich.
• Knowledge Is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Bacon to Create Modern Science. — Henry, John.
• The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science — Henry, John.
• Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. — Huff, Toby.
• Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and SymbolicVariation in the History of Life. — Jablonka, Eva, and Marion J. Lamb.
• Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West. — Jacob, Margaret C
• The Good of Wrath: Supernatural Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation. — Johnson, Dominic D.P., and Oliver Krüger.
• The European Miracle. — Jones, Eric L.
• Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. — Koerner, Lisbeth.
• Geography and Trade. — Krugman, Paul.
• Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity: Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-exchange. — Landa, Janet Tai.
• Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World — Landes, David S.
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations — Landes, David S.
• Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. — Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington
• The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics. — Lasch, Christopher.
• Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change. — Leighton, Wayne A., and Edward J. López
• Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780–1787 — Levere, T. H., and G. L’E. Turner
• A Geography of Time. — Levine, Robert.
• Cultural Foundations of Learning: East and West. — Li, Jin.
• Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity. — MacLeod, Christine.
• The Fable of the Bees. — de Mandeville, Bernard
• Fakes, Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science. — Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti
• The Growth of Biological Thought. — Mayr, Ernest.
• Authority, Liberty & Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe. — Mayr, Otto.
• The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. — McCloskey, Deirdre N.
• The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. — Menand, Louis.
• The Sociology of Science — Merton, Robert K.
• Cultural Evolution — Mesoudi, Alex.
• The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. — Mokyr, Joel.
• Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process — John Ziman
• Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge Economy — Wilfred Dolfsma and Luc Soete
• Economic Institutions, Rights, Growth, and Sustainability: The Legacy of Douglass North. — Itai Sened and Sebastian Galiani
• Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology. — Monod, Jacques.
• Why the West Rules—For Now. — Morris, Ian.
• The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance — Muir, Edward.
• An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. — Nelson, Richard R., and Sidney Winter.
• Structure and Change in Economic History. — North, Douglass C.
• Understanding the Process of Economic Change. — North, Douglass C.
• How Things Got Better: Speech, Writing, Printing, and Cultural Change. — Perkinson, Henry J.
• The Better Angels of Our Nature. — Pinker, Steven.
• The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. — Pomeranz, Kenneth.
• A History of the Modern Fact. — Poovey, Mary.
• Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution — Richerson, Peter J. and Robert Boyd.
• Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion. — Richerson, Peter J. and Morten H. Christiansen
• Why Europe Was First: Social Change and Economic Growth in Europe and East Asia, 1500–2050 — Ringmar, Erik.
• Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe. — Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, and R. Bin Wong.
• The Crafting of the 10,000 Things — Schäfer, Dagmar.
• The Scientific Revolution. — Shapin, Steven.
• Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. — Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer.
• The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. — Smith, Pamela H.
• Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach. — Sperber, Dan
• The Causes of Economic Growth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. — Szostak, Rick.
• Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality. — Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja.
• Beyond Natural Selection. — Wesson, Robert.
• Placing the Enlightenment. — Withers, Charles W. J.
• The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. — Wootton, David.