Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...

Dieser Beitrag enthält eine Rezension des im Jahr 2009 veröffentlichten wirtschaftshistorischen Buches von Jack A. Goldstone mit dem Titel: „Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History, 1500-1850“.

We examine associations of mass media and information and communicationstechnologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on some economicdevelopment outcomes. We .nd that several mass media and ICT penetration variablesare negatively associated with three development outcomes: corruption,...