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1. The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Joel Mokyr

   In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economics have sought to resolve some of the controversies...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Why Ireland Starved

   A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850

   By Joel Mokyr

   Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a...

   Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge