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5. The Industrial Revolution

[101] “Review of Hohenberg's Economic History of Europe,” Kyklos  (Nov 1971): 147.
 
[102] “Review of  Hawke’s Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870,” Economic History Review  24 (Aug 1971): 493-95
 
[103] “Review of Hughes' Industrialization and Economic History: Theses and Conjectures,”  Journal of Modern History  44 (Mar 1972): 97-8.
 
[106] “Review of Davis, Easterlin, Parker et al., American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States,” Journal of Economic History  32 (Dec 1972): 963-66.
 
[110] “Review of Williamson's Late Nineteenth-Century American Development,” Times Literary Supplement  (Dec 12, 1975):
 
[111] “Review of David's Technology and Nineteenth-Century Growth,” Economic History Review  29 (May 1976): 340-42.
 
[112] “Review of Reed's Investment in Railways in Britain,” American Historical Review  82 (Feb 1977): 102.
 
[114] “Review of Coleman's The Economy of England, 1450-1750,” Journal of Economic Literature  16 (Mar, 1978): 108-110.
 
[50a] “The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1860: A Survey,” Chapter 6 in Floud and McCloskey eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present  (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 103-127, reprinted in J. Mokyr, ed. Economic History and the Industrial Revolution  (Rowman and Littlefield, 1985).
 
[158] “Review of Rosenberg and Birdzell's How the West Grew Rich,” New York Times Sunday Book Review, Feb 1986.
 
[162] “Beyond the Margin, review of Joel Mokyr's The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress.”   Reason 22 (10, Mar 1991): 56-57.
 
[163] “Review of Robert Reich's The Work of Nations.”  Chicago Tribune Book World,  Mar 10, 1991, p. 3.
 
[50b] “The Industrial Revolution: A Survey,” a new essay, in Floud and McCloskey, eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present, 2nd ed., 1994;
 
[50c{a shorter version, “Economists Have Not Explained the First Industrial Revolution”}
 
[211]  “Once Upon a Time There was a Theory,” Scientific American  (Feb 1995): 25.
 
[245] “Squashing the Politically Correct in History (Review of David Landes, Wealth and Poverty of Nations),” Reason, June 1998.