Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
For many of human historical past, financial development was, nicely, fairly bleak. However across the Enlightenment, issues began clicking. This 12 months’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Financial Sciences went to a trio of researchers whose work focuses on how technological progress led to this sustained financial development. At this time we hear from certainly one of them, Joel Mokyr, about his work on European financial historical past.
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