An Analysis of Technological Growth in the West


Further Reading

A number of books discuss the topics of the Industrial Revolution, and particularly the topic of technological change as a driver of economic growth. The following are effectively the citations for the details and facts within the article.

  • Crosby, Alfred W. 1997. The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe
  • Huff, Toby E. 2003. The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West, Second Edition
  • An-Nabhani, Taqiuddin. 1953 (republished in 2002). The Economic System in Islam
  • Nelson, Richard R. 1982. An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
  • Lipsey, Richard G; Carlaw, Kenneth I.; Bekar, Clifford T. 2005. Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth

A number of these books have been mentioned within the article as useful resources or additional reading, the papers published in formal article databases and economics or social history journals by the same authors are quite interesting and additional resources on the subject.

  1. An Introduction
  2. A Look at Technological Growth
  3. Comparative Differences: Eastern Arab-Islam and the West
  4. Western Legal Revolution: Changes and Shifts
  5. Long-run Economies and the Results of Revolution
  6. Further Reading
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