The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^195 Paradox: the Industrial Revolution brought the world closer to gether, made it smaller ...
(^196) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS the builder and have changed over time; that the latest estimate is not necessarily bet ...
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^197 clocks and watches. What to do? Simple. The author decided that most British industry "e ...
(^198) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS refused to adopt this new dispensation, one historian dismissed them as "a dead horse t ...
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^199 [The turbines] were noiseless. In fact, I have frequently visited the engine room of the ...
14 Why Europe? Why Then? If we were to prophesy that in the year 1930 a population of fifty million, bet ter fed, clad, and lod ...
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN? 201 areas of strength and weakness, centers shifting with the accidents of politics and personal genius. B ...
(^202) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS preconceptions. Forget the ancients, they boasted; "we found the con trary." Garcia d' ...
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN? 203 honor, of omnipotence," were diversion and obstacle. If anything, the world of magic was a parody of r ...
(^204) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS tailed not only repeated and repeatable observation, but deliberate simplification as a ...
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN? 205 tionalized, first in the person of such self-appointed human switch boards as Marin Mersenne (1588-16 ...
(^206) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Scientific method and knowledge paid off in applications—most im- portandy in power tec ...
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN? 207 onage, brought the technique to England and built a large water- powered mill employing hundreds of pe ...
(^208) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS had jumped ahead on the strength of rural manufacture (putting-out), but the dispersion ...
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN? 209 thoughts to large workshops where spinners and weavers would have to turn up on time and work the full ...
210 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS of higher wages, the mills still seemed a prison to the old-timers. Where, then, did the e ...
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN? 211 Masters of Precision All studies of change and rates of change have to measure elapsed time. To do thi ...
(^212) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS less accurate, because they could not work with a pendulum. The invention of the balanc ...
15. Britain and the Others /\nd in Europe, why Britain? Why not some other country? On one level, the question is not hard to an ...
(^214) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS So one can hardly exaggerate the contribution of agricultural im provement to Britain' ...
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