Abstract
Economics Did a few great inventors and scientists drive the Industrial Revolution, or would it have happened regardless of such brilliant individuals? In a Perspective, Mokyr argues that the truth probably lies in the middle. Only a small minority of the population was involved in creating and adapting the new techniques and machines that would revolutionize the economy. A recent study estimates the size of these educated elites in French cities from the subscribers to the Grande Encyclopedie. The more subscribers there were in a city, the faster was the subsequent process of industrialization. Modern societies aiming to foster scientific and technological creativity may thus need to do more than raise the levels of mass education. Science , this issue p. [141][1] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aac6520
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