The Birth of the Modern Consumer?
The Industrious Revolution and its Consequences
by: Jan De Vries
University of California, Berkeley
Jan De Vries is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, Professor of Economics, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at UC-Berkeley. His many publications include The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, European Urbanization, and The First Modern Economy, which won the Ranki Prize as the best book in European Economic History during 1997-99. The central theme of this year's lecture will be the role of cultural change in economic development, on which De Vries is a leading authority.
The fund for the Abramovitz Lectures was initiated in 2000 to honor the career and intellectual legacy of Moses Abramovitz, by exploring and extending the major themes to which he devoted his life's work: the sources and measurement of economic growth, swings and fluctuations in economic activity, relationships between economic growth and human welfare, and kindred subjects.