The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth
追溯工业革命的思想起源至17世纪培根计划，该计划旨在扩展有用知识并应用自然哲学解决技术问题以促进经济增长。18世纪西方启蒙运动通过制度发展增加了知识量及其可及性，使工业革命得以转化为19世纪初开始的持续经济增长。
The intellectual origins of the Industrial Revolution are traced back to the Baconian program of the seventeenth century, which aimed at expanding the set of useful knowledge and applying natural philosophy to solve technological problems and bring about economic growth. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment in the West carried out this program through a series of institutional developments that both increased the amount of knowledge and its accessibility to those who could make best use of it. Without the Enlightenment, therefore, an Industrial Revolution could not have transformed itself into the sustained economic growth starting in the early nineteenth century.