This paper looks rather interesting:
Human capital, knowledge and economic development: evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750–1930
Thank you, I have this now!
This paper looks rather interesting:
Human capital, knowledge and economic development: evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750–1930
Thank you, I have this now!
http://sci-hub.cc/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11698-017-0163-z
Excellent, ta!
Back then we did not have the notion of specialists as in scientists, engineers, technicians. People did what they did and were free to work and experiment as they chose. Strangely enough the few universities of the period did not touch these areas of study. It is arguable that since modern universities etc. were created we have lost a lot more than we gained.
BTW you got a ping back here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11698-017-0163-z
they might not be too happy with this thread 😉
“Strangely enough the few universities of the period did not touch these areas of study”: Edinburgh and Glasgow did, Oxford and Cambridge didn’t.
On the Continent? I don’t know. Perhaps this place, founded 1745:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunschweig_University_of_Technology
And this, maybe, founded 1747:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_nationale_des_ponts_et_chaussées
Scrap the patents and copyright systems (but keep and enforce trademark protection) and watch a constructive economic explosion or restrict ingenuity by protecting vested interests and stand by as your society slowly stagnates and folds.