Landes / Industrialisation

Question 1

According to landes, what did the industrial revolution initiate for the first time?

Answer 1

Qualitative change.

The world had seen times of economic prosperity, but in each case the economic advance had eventually receded. It wasn’t until the industrial revolution improved methods of ensuring productivity that qualitative change could be consolidated and real self sustaining economic advance change could take form

Question 2

According to Landes, what is the primary stimuli of modern technology?

Answer 2

Free ranging imagination, the increasing autonomy autonomy of pure science and accumulation of a pool of untapped knowledge
- benefits of free market / free society