Contents

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction: Ideology, Knowledge, and Institutions in Economic Change

  1  Prologue: the British Economy in 1700

  2  Enlightenment and Economy

  3  Useful knowledge and Technology

  4  An Enlightened Political Economy

  5  Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution

  6  The Origins of British Technological Leadership

  7  Technological Change in the Industrial Revolution

  8  Britain and the World: An Open Economy

  9  Agriculture in the Age of Enlightenment

10  The Service Sectors: Commerce and Transport

11  The Service Sectors: Finance and Personal Services

12  Progress and Productivity

13  Demographic Transformation in the Age Of Enlightenment

14  Gender and Family in an Enlightened Economy

15  Factories and Firms in an Age of Technological Progress

16  Social Norms and a Civil Economy

17  Formal Institutions: The State and the Economy

18  Living Standards and Inequality

19  The Results: The British Economy in 1850

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