Introduction : The enlightened economist / Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V.C. Nye ; Neither feast nor famine : England before the Industrial Revolution / Cormac Ó Gráda ; Progress, useful knowledge, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution / Joel Mokyr ; Coercion and exchange : how did markets evolve? / Avner Grief ; Meat consumption in nineteenth-century New York : Quantity, distribution, and quality, or notes on the "antebellum puzzle" / Gergely Baics ; Funding empire : Risk, diversification, and the underwriting of early modern sovereign loans / Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth ; Establishing a new order : The growth of the state and the decline of witch trials in France / Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama, and John V.C. Nye -- II. Innovation. Increasing market concentration in British banking, 1885 to 1925 / Fabio Braggion, Narly R.D. Dwarkasing, and Lyndon Moore ; The catapult of riches : The airplane as a creative macroinvention / Peter B. Meyer ; England's eighteenth-century demand for high-quality workmanship : Evidence from apprenticeship, 1710-1770 / Karine van der Beek ; A growth agenda for economic history / Rick Szostak -- III. The Industrial Revolution. Amidst poverty and prejudice : Black and Irish Civil War veterans / Hoyt Bleakley, Louis Cain, and Joseph Ferrie ; How Britain lost its competitive edge : Competence in the Second Industrial Revolution / Ralf R. Meisenzahl ; Regulating child labor : The European experience / Carolyn Tuttle and Simone A. Wegge ; Decomposing the wage gap : Within- and between-occupation gender wage gaps at a nineteenth-century textile firm / Joyce Burnette ; The context of English industrialization / Eric Jones.