The assumption that new technology has a detrimental effect on employment as automation displaces workers is a phantom that has stalked every industrial revolution. Yet in Europe, our research ...

This would have been a familiar scene all across Europe at the time ... traditional in the Highlands of Scotland before the Industrial Revolution. Today most people in Scotland live in urban ...

Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy gives culture center stage in the rapid economic growth and industrialization brought about by the first Industrial Revolution and ...

“The US risks being left behind in the clean industrial revolution.” The US produced just 10 percent of its electricity from wind energy last year, compared to 17 percent in Europe and 29 ...

The Economic Survey 2024-25 said that the introduction of tariffs dates back to the Industrial Revolution, when Western Europe and North America worked towards catching up with the British industrial ...