5 The Political Economy of the Printing Press

Lecture

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Reading

Eisenstein, E. L. (1979). The printing press as an agent of change. Cambridge University Press. Read Ch. 1: “The Unacknowledged Revolution”. Required. Presentation by Emilio P. P.

Dittmar, J. E. (2011). Information technology and economic change: The impact of the printing press. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(3), 1133–1172. Required. Presentation by Juan R. O.

Rubin, J. (2014). Printing and Protestants: An empirical test of the role of printing in the Reformation. Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(2), 270–286. Recommended. Presentation by Katia R. O.

Becker, S. O., & Woessmann, L. (2009). Was Weber wrong? A human capital theory of Protestant economic history. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2), 531–596. Recommended. Presentation by Santiago S. M.