Why Did So Many Inventions Come from Europe? ~ Joel Mokyr (Great Divergence #2)
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Episode: Why Did So Many Inventions Come from Europe? ~ Joel Mokyr (Great Divergence #2)
Pub date: 2026-04-22
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Several inventions mark the progress towards modernity - the Gutenberg printing press, the Galileo telescope, the Watt steam engine. But why was Europe the birthplace of so many of these?
Joel Mokyr, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics, thinks the cause was culture. For decades he has asked economists to take intellectual history…
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