DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Prof. Mokyr discusses technological progress, classical music, and his favorite books with The Daily Northwestern.

Saito, a fourth-year student researching the economic impacts of the Japanese American internment during World War II, explains, "[Prof. Joel Mokyr has] encouraged me to continue on with my work even when confronted with many roadblocks—and he also encourages me to think bigger, too. He’ll engage with my ideas, help me work out the conceptual flow of things, and then ask me how my hypotheses relate to global cases of discrimination to other minority groups, or how the evolution of American race relations compares to those of other countries."

"Providing a novel answer to a fundamental question in economic and political history, Two Paths to Prosperity shows how extended kinship in Chinese society facilitated the consolidation of autocracy and hindered innovation and economic development, and how corporations in Europe influenced emerging state institutions and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution."

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