Economists don’t usually talk about “culture.” But Joel Mokyr argues that it’s the engine of innovation — and the Nobel Prize committee agreed. Stephen Dubner sits down for a thousand-year conversation (including advice!) with the new Nobel laureate.
 
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 <li><a href="https://economics.northwestern.edu/people/directory/joel-mokyr.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joel Mokyr</a>, economic historian at Northwestern University.</li>
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 <li>RESOURCES:
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 <li><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691265940/two-paths-to-prosperity" rel="noopener noreferrer">Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000</a>, by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and, Guido Tabellini (2025).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/digest/20233/outsize-role-immigrants-us-innovation?page=1&perPage=50" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Outsize Role of Immigrants in US Innovation</a>," by Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada (NBER, 2023).</li>
 <li><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pg7wce" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy</a>, by Joel Mokyr (2016).</li>
 <li><a href="https://amzn.to/4rZ7fJw" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty</a>, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (2012).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.northwestern.edu/dist/3/1222/files/2016/06/The-Economics-Of-Being-Jewish-2gdly5t.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Economics of Being Jewish</a>," by Joel Mokyr (Critical Review, 2011).</li>
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