Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel Mokyr persuasively argues that sustained technological progress stemmed from a change in cultural beliefs. The change occurred gradually during the seventeenth and eighteenth century and was fostered by an intellectual elite that formed a transnational community and adopted new attitudes toward the creation and diffusion of knowledge, setting the foundation for the ethos of modern science. The book is a significant contribution to the growing literature that links culture and economics. This review discusses Mokyr’s historical analysis in relation to the following questions: What is culture and how should we use it in economics? How can culture explain modern economic growth? Will the culture of growth that caused modern prosperity persist in the future?

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通过服从自然来指挥自然：关于乔尔·莫克（Joel Mokyr）的“成长文化”的评论

为什么现代社会能够累积创新？乔尔·莫基尔（Joel Mokyr）在《成长的文化：现代经济的起源》中有说服力地指出，持续的技术进步源于文化观念的变化。这种变化在17世纪和18世纪逐渐发生，并受到知识精英的推动，这些知识精英形成了一个跨国社区，并对知识的创造和传播采取了新的态度，为现代科学的精神奠定了基础。这本书对将文化和经济学联系在一起的文学不断增长做出了重大贡献。这篇评论讨论了有关以下问题的穆克尔的历史分析：什么是文化？在经济学中应如何使用文化？文化如何解释现代经济增长？导致现代繁荣的增长文化在未来会继续存在吗？