“Incentives, Institutions, and Industrialization: A Prelude to Modern Economic Growth.” Rivista Di Storia Economica, forthcoming.
“Diversity, Pluralism and Tolerance: The Roots of Economic Progress?” In Can Democracy and Capitalism Be Reconciled (Tent. Title), edited by Scott Miller. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“The Benefits and Costs of Diversity: Lessons from Economic History.” In The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations. Forthcoming.
Mokyr, Joel, and Guido Tabellini. “Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged.” Economica, December 27, 2023, 1–36. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4442438.
Kelly, Morgan, Joel Mokyr, and Cormac Ó Gráda. “The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution.” Journal of Political Economy 131, no. 1 (January 2023). https://doi.org/10.1086/720890.
Mokyr, Joel, Assaf Sarid, and Karine van der Beek. “The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights and the Persistence in Britain’s Industrialisation.” The Economic Journal 132, no. 645 (July 2022): 1894–1926. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab102.
“Attitudes, Aptitudes, and the Roots of the Great Enrichment.” In The Handbook of Historical Economics, edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico, 773–94. Academic Press, 2021.
“‘The Holy Land of Industrialism’: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution.” Journal of the British Academy 9 (August 2021): 223–47. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009.223.
“Creative Destruction or Destructive Creation? A Prelude to the Industrial Revolution.” Presented at the Conference on the Economics of Creative Destruction, June 2021.
“The Economics of Apprenticeship.” In Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe, edited by Maarten Prak and Patrick Wallis, 20–43. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Bottom-up or Top-Down? The Origins of the Industrial Revolution.” Journal of Institutional Economics 14, no. 6 (December 2018): 1003–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413741700042X.
“The Past and the Future of Innovation: Some Lessons from Economic History.” Explorations in Economic History 69 (July 2018): 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2018.03.003.
Croix, David de la, Matthias Doepke, and Joel Mokyr. “Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133, no. 1 (February 2018): 1–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx026.
“Religion, Culture and the Great Enrichment.” Presented at the Liber Amicorum for Karel Davids, October 2017.
Zeev, Nadav Ben, Joel Mokyr, and Karine van der Beek. “Flexible Supply of Apprenticeship in the British Industrial Revolution.” The Journal of Economic History 77, no. 1 (February 21, 2017): 208–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26348409.
Greif, Avner, and Joel Mokyr. “Institutions and Economic History: A Critique of Professor McCloskey.” Journal of Institutional Economics 12, no. 1 (March 2016): 29–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137415000417.
Kelly, Morgan, Joel Mokyr, and Cormac Ó Gráda. “Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution.” Annual Review of Economics 6, no. 1 (August 2014): 363–89. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-041042.
Mokyr, Joel, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. “The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no. 3 (August 2015): 31–50. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.29.3.31.
“The next Age of Invention: Technology’s Future Is Brighter than Pessimists Allow.” Edited by Brian C. Anderson. City Journal, Manhattan Institute (2014): 14–20.
“Secular Stagnation? Not in Your Life.” In Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes and Cures, edited by Coen Teulings and Richard Baldwin, 83–89. Paris & London: CEPR Press, 2014.
“Growth and Technology: The Wild Ride Ahead.” Milken Institute Review, Milken Insitute (2014): 8–94.
“Culture, Institutions, and Modern Growth.” In Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North, edited by Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened, 151–91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Capitalism Reinvents Itself.” Current History 112, no. 757 (2013): 291–97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45319246.
“Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth.” Scandinavian Economic History Review 61, no. 1 (March 2013): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2012.755471.
Meisenzahl, Ralf, and Joel Mokyr. “The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions.” In NBER Working Paper Series 16993, 2011. https://doi.org/10.3386/w16993.
“The Economics of Being Jewish.” Critical Review 23, no. 1-2 (March 2011): 195–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2011.574481.
“Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence.” In The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe – Vol I, 1700-1870, edited by Stephen Broadberry and Kevin H. O’Rourke, 7–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change: 1750–1914.” In Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, Vol. 1, edited by Bronwyn Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, 11–50. Amsterdam: North Holland, 2010.
“Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth.” American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 99, no. 2 (May 2009): 349–55.
“The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution.” In Institutions and Economic Performance, edited by Elhanan Helpman, 64–119. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
“The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth.” In Max Weber Lecture Series. Fiesolana, Italy: European University Institute, 2007.
“Long-Term Economic Growth and the History of Technology.” In Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 1B, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf, 1113–80. Elsevier, 2005.
“Why Was the Industrial Revolution a European Phenomenon?” Supreme Court Economic Review 10 (2003): 27–63. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147137.
“Mercantilism, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution.” Presented at the Conference on “Eli Heckscher, 1879-1953,” May 2003.
“Thinking about Technology and Institutions.” Presented at the Macalester International College Roundtable “Prometheus’s Bequest: Technology and Change,” October 2002.
“The Enduring Riddle of the European Miracle: The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.” Presented at the Conference on Convergence and Divergence in Historical Perspective: The Origins of Wealth and Persistence of Poverty in the Modern World, October 2002.
“Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: The View from Economic History.” Presented at the Conference on “The Economy as an Evolving System” in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, November 2001.
“The Rise and Fall of the Factory System: Technology, Firms, and Households since the Industrial Revolution.” Presented at the Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Macroeconomics, Pittsburgh, January 1, 2001.
“The Second Industrial Revolution, 1870-1914.” In Storia Dell’economia Mondiale, edited by Valerio Castronovo. Rome: Editori Laterza, 2000.
“Knowledge, Technology, and Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution.” In Technology and Productivity Growth, 253–92. The Hague: Kulwert, 2000.
“Economic History and the ‘New Economy.’” Presented at the National Association of Business Economists, September 12, 2000.
“Natural History and Economic History: Is Technological Change an Evolutionary Process?” April 2000.
“Why Was There More Work for Mother? Technological Change and the Household, 1880-1930.” Journal of Economic History 60, no. 1 (March 2000): 1–40. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024633.
“King Kong and Cold Fusion: Counterfactual Analysis and the History of Technology.” Presented at the Conference on Counterfactual History, February 2000.
“Innovation and Its Enemies: The Economic and Political Roots of Technological Inertia.” In A Not-So-Dismal Science: A Broader View of Economies and Societies, edited by Mancur Olson and Satu Kähköhnen, 61–91. Oxford University Press, 2000.
“The Industrial Revolution and the Netherlands: Why Did It Not Happen?” Prepared for the 150th Anniversary Conference Organized by the Royal Dutch Economic Association, December 1999.
Mokyr, Joel, and Cormac Ó Gráda. “Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850.” In Conference on Famine Demography. Les Treilles, France, 1999.
“Invention and Rebellion: Why Do Innovations Occur at All? An Evolutionary Approach.” In Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth, edited by Elise S. Brezis and Peter Temin, 179–203. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1999.
“Editor’s Introduction: The New Economic History and the Industrial Revolution.” In The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective, 1–127. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.
“The Political Economy of Technological Change: Resistance and Innovation in Economic History.” In Technological Revolutions in Europe, edited by Maxine Berg and Kristin Bruland, 39–64. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, 1998.
“Induced Technical Innovation and Medical History: An Evolutionary Approach.” Journal of Evolutionary Economics 8, no. 2 (July 1998): 119–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001910050058.
“Science, Technology, and Knowledge: What Historians Can Learn from an Evolutionary Approach.” Presented at the Conference on the Evolution of Science, May 16, 1998.
“Innovation and Selection in Evolutionary Models of Technology: Some Definitional Issues.” Presented at the Conference on Evolutionary Models in Economics, January 1997.
“Technological Selection, Information, and Changing Household Behavior, 1850-1914.” 1996.
