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oapen-20.500.12657-748372023-08-03T17:59:40Z Chapter Round Table comment Unger, Richard W. Knowledge economy middle ages early modern age modern age economic growth bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology Trying to comprehend and then to describe the process of technological change and its impact is a difficult task. Explaining it is then extremely demanding. Many of the contributions in the papers offered indicate the value of thick description, of looking closely at relevant documentation, piecing together events from those documents and presenting the information in a comprehensible way. Placing that description within the context of time and place, making the small picture part of the big picture is, after all, doing good history 2023-08-03T15:03:27Z 2023-08-03T15:03:27Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221500929_33 9791221500929 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74837 eng Datini Studies in Economic History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221500929-27.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0092-9_27 Firenze University Press 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 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.27 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.27 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9f9bbbdd-c500-4575-9865-db2693689bc1 9791221500929 3 3 Florence open access
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Trying to comprehend and then to describe the process of technological change and its impact is a difficult task. Explaining it is then extremely demanding. Many of the contributions in the papers offered indicate the value of thick description, of looking closely at relevant documentation, piecing together events from those documents and presenting the information in a comprehensible way. Placing that description within the context of time and place, making the small picture part of the big picture is, after all, doing good history
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