Eric Chaney

Séminaires généraux
amse seminar

Eric Chaney

Harvard University
Scientific revolution: Institutions and the intellectual rise of the western world
Lieu

IBD Amphi

Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre

AMU - AMSE
5-9 boulevard Maurice Bourdet
13001 Marseille

Date(s)
Lundi 16 octobre 2017| 14:30 - 16:00
Contact(s)

Timothée Demont : timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.fr
Roberta Ziparo : rziparo[at]gmail.com

Résumé

This paper uses the union of the world's largest library collections to document the rise of scientific output in the West. Results suggest that the West had pulled ahead of the most advanced non-Western regions by the fourteenth century, casting doubt on hypotheses stressing the pivotal role of the Reformation of the Atlantic Trade in this human capital divergence. I hypothesize that the growth of scientific output in the West ultimately reflected medieval institutional developments and provide evidence in support of this claim.