A stimulating and fascinating volume that should be in the library of anyone interested in economic history or technology.
   --John Vincent Nye, Journal of Evolutionary Economics

A most important book...[It] contains a conspectus of the variety of work that goes into our studies nowadays: biometrics and cliometrics; theory and a review of theory; broad sweeps of generalizations, detailed research on a micro scale, and international comparison; some sociology; and some institutional politics...A rich offering.
   --Sidney Pollard, Journal of Economic History

Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University.

David S. Landes is Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.

Henry Rosovsky is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.

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Read More by David S. Landes:

• Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Revised and Enlarged Edition