L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century

Indice Le radici storiche dell’economia della conoscenza The knowledge economy in the preindustrial era LA CONOSCENZA UTILE E LA SUA DIFFUSIONE / ‘USEFUL KNOWLEDGE’ AND ITS DISSEMINATIONTransmission of useful knowledge in texts written by craftsmen. Two case studies from the Holy Roman EmpireThe spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals among practitioners in Italy and England (13th-16th c.): two moments of a European innovation cycle?Promotion of high-quality textiles by prize competitions during the Enlightenment in Saxony. From raw material to finished product manufacturing«Li vostri che tenghono li libri non sanno tenere tanti chonnti». Useful knowledge and accounting as seen through the accountant’s lenses and the logic of capitalismTally sticks as media of knowledge in the contexts of medieval economic and administrative historKnowledge, economy, and university in the south of Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. The case of Salamanca and CoimbraTransferring useful knowledge. Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship INNOVAZIONI NELLA TECNOLOGIA, NELLA PRODUZIONE E NEL COMMERCIO / INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCTION, AND COMMERCELe conseguenze economiche dell’innovazione bellica. La produzione di «artiglierie alla francese» a Firenze tra Quattro e CinquecentoBookkeeping as a ‘key technology’ of pre-modern commerce. Its relevance for the eco-nomic development in EuropeThe œconomia of iron and steel: Material transformations, manual skills, and technical improvement in early modern SwedenThe origins of the putting-out or domestic system of industrial production in EnglandThe economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550Market assessment and risk prediction: resources and know-how of a seventeenth-century bookseller of Venice coping with competition PRODUTTIVITÀ E CRESCITA ECONOMICA / PRODUCTIVITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTHLa production d’alun en Occident: l’essor d’une industrie nouvelle à la fin du XVe siècleManagement and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800Productivity? – Yes, but subject to sustainability! An evidence of (re)emergence of accounting for sustainability from the French agricultural authors from the XVII to the beginning of the XIX centuries TAVOLA ROTONDA / ROUND TABLEUseful knowledge, technological innovation and economic development in the European ceramic industries, 14th-18th centuriesRound Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth»Round Table comment Abstract