Leiden, 16-18 September 2004
Papers
Roy Bin Wong, "Useful knowledge and economic change: what are we explaining?" |(pdf)
Harriet Zurndorfer, "Science without modernization: China's first encounter with useful and reliable knowledge from Europe" |(pdf)
Debin Ma, "Law, commerce and knowledge in 18-20th century China: an institutional perspective on the "great divergence" |(pdf)
Prasannan Parthasarathi, "Useful Knowledge in the Indian Subcontinent"| (pdf)
William Gervase Clarence Smith, "Science and technology in early modern Islam, c.1450-c.1850" |(pdf)
Maxine Berg, "Macartney's things. Were they useful? Knowledge and the trade to China in the 18th century" |(pdf)
Karel Davids, "Water control and useful knowledge: river management and the evolution of knowledge in China, Northern Italy and the Netherlands" |(pdf)
Ian Inkster,"Three pictures and an argument - A story of useful and reliable knowledge circa 1600-1912" |(pdf)
Larry Epstein, "The Generation and Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Pre-modern Europe, C.1200-c.1800| (pdf)
Margaret Jacob, "How tthink about culture in relation to economic development" |(pdf)
Bob Allen, "Science, economics, and the British Industrial Revolution"
Jan Luiten van Zanden, "Common workmen, philosophers and the birth of the European knowledge economy: about the price and the production of useful knowledge in Europe, 1350-1800"
Floris Cohen, "The coming-into-being of our modern world: What science and technology had to do with it"