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…Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019
Anton HowesNotes on DublinA few things I learned about, from seventeenth-century mercenaries to kingship rituals in the Bronze Age.Sep 15, 2019Sep 15, 2019
Anton HowesHow Innovators Defended Labour-Saving TechnologyHow it is that innovators themselves created the institutions that support innovation?Jul 30, 20191Jul 30, 20191
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…Apr 3, 2018Apr 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…Sep 27, 20175Sep 27, 20175
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…May 9, 20178May 9, 20178
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…May 4, 2017May 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…May 3, 20171May 3, 20171
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…Mar 8, 20175Mar 8, 20175
Anton HowesMacroinvention vs Microinvention?Joel Mokyr, among many other things, is known for his distinction between macro- and microinventions. Macroinventions are the radical…Feb 20, 2017Feb 20, 2017