🌐 Global Economy Jul 13, 2026 · conversableeconomist

Interview with Joel Mokyr: Big Topics in Long-Run Growth

Conversable Economist
View Channel →
Source ↗ 👁 5 💬 0
Tyler Cowen serves as interlocutor in “Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth” (Conversations with Tyler, July 8, 2026). Mokyr (Nobel, ’25) has a genius for looking at broad trends, and then sorting out kinds of explanations are most plausible. Here are a few points that caught my eye.



Mokyr has a new book out called Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000, written with Avner Greif, and Guido Tabellini. Thus, som

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

Pentagon signs over $2B in deals securing batteries, critical minerals
Supply Chain Dive - Latest News · 14h ago
Inflation Adjusted Wages, through July
Econbrowser · 16h ago
Estimated FY2026 Budget Deficit
Econbrowser · 17h ago
Cost of Living Measures
Econbrowser · 17h ago
USA fact of the day
Marginal REVOLUTION · 17h ago
If AI disappoints? The transmission of US big-tech earnings news
Bank Underground · 20h ago