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"Our simulations suggest that the presence of a functioning academic market in Europe helped universities to produce more at the dawn of European primacy. This might have paved the way for the enlightenment, humanistic, and scientific revolutions. "
David de la Croix, Frédéric Docquier, Alice Fabre, Robert Stelter, The Academic Market and The Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000–1800), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023;, jvad061, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad061 #openAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #EarlyModern #Europe #Medievodons #University #Economics #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @medievodons @historyofeconomics @earlymodern
@bibliolater It’s reasonable to say that, at the time of the enlightenment, Europe was running roughshod over everyone, stealing everything, leaving destruction, so it could have “enlightenment, humanistic, and scientific revolutions”. Good grief.