Anton HowesNew Blog — goodbye, Medium.For those of you who follow me via Medium, I’ve moved my blog away from it, and onto antonhowes.com. I have also set up an email…1 min read·Oct 30, 2019----
Anton HowesNotes on DublinA few things I learned about, from seventeenth-century mercenaries to kingship rituals in the Bronze Age.3 min read·Sep 15, 2019----
Anton HowesHow Innovators Defended Labour-Saving TechnologyHow it is that innovators themselves created the institutions that support innovation?6 min read·Jul 30, 2019--1--1
Anton HowesTiming Sustained Economic GrowthDietz Vollrath has written a new blogpost calling attention to a working paper on measuring economic growth for the most hotly debated time…4 min read·Apr 3, 2018----
Anton HowesWhy study Economic History?Today I gave the first lecture for a new course I’m teaching at King’s College London, The World Economy and its History. It’s a compulsory…3 min read·Sep 27, 2017--5--5
Anton HowesIf not Britain, where? The case for a French Industrial RevolutionTyler Cowen asks whether the world would have seen an Industrial Revolution if Britain had failed to have one. I’m going to take…5 min read·May 9, 2017--8--8
Anton HowesHow to improve ArtMuch of my work focuses on how more and more people in Britain in the eighteenth century sought to improve technological processes and…4 min read·May 4, 2017----
Anton HowesWere more troops sent to quash the Luddites than to fight Napoleon?One of the most popular facts about the British Industrial Revolution is that more troops were sent to quash the machine-breaking Luddites…3 min read·May 3, 2017--1--1
Anton Howes11 Forgotten Women who Invented the British Industrial RevolutionWhen we think of inventors of the Industrial Revolution the first names that come to mind are usually those of men: Brunel, Arkwright…11 min read·Mar 8, 2017--5--5
Anton HowesMacroinvention vs Microinvention?Joel Mokyr, among many other things, is known for his distinction between macro- and microinventions. Macroinventions are the radical…7 min read·Feb 20, 2017----