{"id":314,"date":"2017-02-17T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/?p=314"},"modified":"2017-02-17T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:40:00","slug":"how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world-aeon-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/2017\/02\/17\/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world-aeon-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__body__author-name vcard\">Essay of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/users\/joel-mokyr\">Joel Mokyr<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Robert H Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body__author-name vcard\">Summary of main factors:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body__author-name vcard\">&#8211; political fragmentation -&gt; competing states in Europe<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body__author-name vcard\">&#8211; an integrated, continent-wide market, helping intellectuals and innovators to aim for a big market<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body__author-name vcard\">&#8211; some major inventions introduced new tools for doing other breakthrough research: steam engine, marine chronometer, microscope, telescope, barometer, modern thermometer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/header_essay-final-johannes_lingelbach_001.jpg?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>In this regard, then, Europe\u2019s intellectual community enjoyed the best of two worlds, both the advantages of an integrated transnational academic community and a com\u00adpetitive states system. This system produced many of the cultural components that led to the Great Enrichment: a belief in social and economic progress, a growing regard for scientific and intellectual innovation, and a commitment to a Baconian, ie a methodical and empirically grounded, research programme of knowledge in the service of economic growth. The natural philosophers and mathematicians of the 17th-century Republic of Letters adopted the idea of experimental science as a prime tool, and accepted the use of increasingly more sophisticated mathematics as a method of understanding and codifying nature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world\">How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essay of\u00a0Joel Mokyr\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Robert H Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history at Northwestern University in Illinois. Summary of main factors: &#8211; political fragmentation -&gt; competing states in Europe &#8211; an integrated, continent-wide market, helping intellectuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[79,123,31],"tags":[243,241,240,36,239,131,242],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jhJx-54","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosetta.vn\/short\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}