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Thursday, 16 February 2017

Europe became rich without slavery according to Joel Moky the Robert H Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University in Illinois

How did Europe become the richest part of the world? – https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world via @aeonmag


Joel Mokyr
is the Robert H Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University in Illinois. In 2006, he was awarded the biennial Heineken Award for History offered by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. His latest book is A Culture of Growth: Origins of the Modern Economy (2016).