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born 1946 Israel
Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Netherlands-born American-Israeli economic historian. He is the Robert H.
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Technological systems, like all cultural systems, must have some built-in stability.
The physical and social environment is important in determining the actions of individuals, although it is not solely responsible for the outcome.
If England led the rest of the world in the Industrial Revolution, it was despite, not because of her formal education system.
By ignoring and evading rather than altogether abolishing obsolete rules and regulations, eighteenth century Britain moved slowly toward a free market society.
As Hooykaas (1972, p. 101) argued, the pervasiveness of religion meant that for any idea to become socially acceptable, it made a huge difference whether it was resisted, tolerated, or sponsored by prevalent religious beliefs.
Joel Mokyr (2016)
What made the West successful was neither capitalism, nor science, nor an historical accident such as a favourable geography. Instead, political and mental diversity combined to create an ever changing panorama of technologically creative societies.