Exact Thinking in Demented Times (https://www.amazon.com/Exact-Thinking-Demented-Times-Foundations/dp/0465096956/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vienna+circle&qid=1571114630&sr=8-1 …) is also great. Covers Wittgenstein and his contemporaries.
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Ah, thanks! I got it a few years ago but haven't yet read. Will try to dig it out...
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It's an excellent book! It's the first Mokyr I read
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Mokyr is by a long way the best economic historian we have
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You should talk to
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As a Philosophy student I'm interested in this, I remember reading in your book that Reid earned an http://M.St . in Philosophy. Any resource out there to read more about Reid's take on Witt?. PG's take on phil is interesting though http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
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Mokyr is also a real Mensch
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I'm curious what was going on spiritually during those years...
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Great read - the idea that (shock horror) ideas matter is so welcome in the econ. history literature. Would also recommend 'Energy & The English Industrial Revolution' by EA Wrigley. Great account of the role energy played in breaking through previous limits on prosperity.
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