Age of Invention: The Industry of All Nations
The spirit of the nineteenth-century exhibitions of industry, and how we might organise a Great Exhibition for the modern day.
Industrial Revolution And Its Consequences
Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?
This week we are taking a look at the latest winner of the ACOUP Senate poll, which posed the question “Why didn’t the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution?” To answer that,…
War and the lost generation of inventors
Large wars destroy not only lives and infrastructure but also the human capital that fuels long-term economic progress. This column presents new evidence from Britain that shows that communities that lost many young men in World War I experienced persistent declines in subsequent innovation. The losses were particularly detrimental for frontier technologies and breakthrough inventions, highlighting how war can leave long-lasting scars on a country’s capacity to generate new ideas.
Divergence with a Vengeance
The 19th century was more important than I previously thought
The Software Revolution
In human history, there have been three great technological revolutions and many smaller ones. The three great ones are the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the one we are...
Why did capitalism begin in the West?
Culture, class, and the origins of capitalist development
Why no Roman Industrial Revolution?
You can’t leapfrog the spinning wheel to get to the spinning mule
Programmed Inequality
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty y...
The rise of industrial software | Chris Loy
> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.
The Machine in the Garden
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1, Mar., 1956
Avant l’IA, les « révolutions » informatiques ont-elles vraiment bouleversé la recherche en économie ?
L’IA aurait, aux dires de prestigieuses revues, le « potentiel pour révolutionner la recherche » en économie. Mais qu’en a-t-il été de précédentes innovations informatiques pareillement présentées ?
notes on the industrialisation of decision making
worrying away at an old subject
Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren- John Maynard Keynes
We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterised the nineteenth century is over; that the rapid improvement in the standard of life is now going to slow down—at any rate in Great Britain; that a decline in prosperity is more likely than an improvement in the decade which lies ahead of us.
Industrial Research Labs Were Invented In Europe But Made The U.S. A Tech Superpower
It's a small number of research labs inside tech giants that are driving the rapid rise of AI today. But this is not the first time such labs have taken center stage, a new study shows.
The Industrial Revolution began in the mid-18th century in Great Britain. To provide power for the wondrous new inventions producing marvelous new goods and ser