Why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--stagnate?
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Joel Mokyr is Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University, and is the author of Why Ireland Starved, The Economics of the Industrial Revolution, and other books in economic history.
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