{"id":184607,"date":"2023-03-27T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/event\/an-evolutionary-approach-to-the-history-of-useful-knowledge\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:42:13","slug":"an-evolutionary-approach-to-the-history-of-useful-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/event\/an-evolutionary-approach-to-the-history-of-useful-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
INFORMATION<\/h5>\n

An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n

How should we think about long-term economic progress? Something dramatic changed in Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution, but our models have difficulty identifying the precise nature of what was driving the change.<\/p>\n

In this Quantitative History Webinar, Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University will present his argument that models inspired by Charles Darwin can help us understand the selection process that committed the most important agents in Europe to a culture of progress which we associate with the Industrial Enlightenment and eventually to sustainable economic growth. The great advantage of evolutionary thinking is that it tries to explain why the present is the way it is and not some other (possible) way and that unintended consequences and emergent properties are a key to understanding long-term economic history.<\/p>\n

Discussant: Jared Rubin, Professor of Economics, Chapman University<\/p>\n

Live on Zoom on March 30, 2023
\n09:00 Hong Kong\/Beijing\/Singapore | 10:00 Tokyo | 12:00 Sydney
\nPrevious Day 18:00 Los Angeles | 21:00 New York<\/p>\n

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About the Quantitative History Webinar Series<\/h5>\n

The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series, now entering its fourth year, is co-organized by Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. [AoE\/B-704\/22-R]). \u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u7db2\u4e0a\u8b1b\u5ea7\u7cfb\u5217\u7531\u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78\u9673\u5fd7\u6b66\u548c\u99ac\u99b3\u9a01\u6559\u6388\u806f\u5408\u767c\u8d77\uff0c\u65e8\u5728\u4ecb\u7d39\u524d\u6cbf\u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u6210\u679c\u3001\u4fc3\u9032\u540c\u4ec1\u4ea4\u6d41\uff0c\u63a8\u5ee3\u91cf\u5316\u65b9\u6cd5\u5728\u6b77\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u7684\u61c9\u7528\u3002\u672c\u7cfb\u5217\u8b1b\u5ea7\u7531\u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78\u7d93\u7ba1\u5b78\u9662\u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u5fc3\u548c\u570b\u969b\u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u5b78\u6703\u627f\u8fa6\uff0c\u53ca\u9999\u6e2f\u4eba\u6587\u793e\u6703\u7814\u7a76\u6240\u5168\u529b\u652f\u6301\u3002\u5f9e2023\u5e74\u958b\u59cb\uff0c\u7cfb\u5217\u5f97\u5230\u4e2d\u570b\u9999\u6e2f\u7279\u5225\u884c\u653f\u5340\u7814\u7a76\u8cc7\u52a9\u5c40\u5353\u8d8a\u5b78\u79d1\u9818\u57df\u8a08\u5283\u7684\u91cd\u8981\u8cc7\u52a9 (\u9805\u76ee\u7de8\u865f[AoE\/B-704\/22-R])\u3002<\/p>\n

Conveners:
\nProfessor Zhiwu Chen<\/a>
\nDr. Chicheng Ma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184607","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","seminar-categories-quantitative-history-series-sc","event-natures-seminar-calendar","event-natures-sc-economics-seminar-seminar-calendar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/184607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/184607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkubs.hku.hk\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}