{"id":5959,"date":"2017-10-27T02:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=5959"},"modified":"2024-04-26T03:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T03:15:50","slug":"introduction-to-examining-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/chapter\/introduction-to-examining-economic-growth\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Historical Economic Growth","rendered":"Introduction to Historical Economic Growth"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: understand that economic growth is a relatively recent phenomenon and identify key institutional factors that contribute to economic growth<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7264\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2043\/2017\/10\/06185138\/together-2643652_1280-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"People helping each other up a mountain.\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\" \/>\r\n\r\nEarlier in this module we observed that economic growth involves a broad collection of societal changes, which lead to increasing living standards. In this section, we will explain a number of institutional factors that allow or inhibit a society's economic growth.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: understand that economic growth is a relatively recent phenomenon and identify key institutional factors that contribute to economic growth<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7264\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2043\/2017\/10\/06185138\/together-2643652_1280-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"People helping each other up a mountain.\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in this module we observed that economic growth involves a broad collection of societal changes, which lead to increasing living standards. In this section, we will explain a number of institutional factors that allow or inhibit a society&#8217;s economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-5959\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Historical Economic Growth. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: mohamed1982eg. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: pixabay. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/together-helping%E2%80%8B-each-other-winning-2643652\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/together-helping%E2%80%8B-each-other-winning-2643652\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":18,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Historical Economic Growth\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"mohamed1982eg\",\"organization\":\"pixabay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/together-helping%E2%80%8B-each-other-winning-2643652\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"43653a50-4d75-49ca-a3f1-42adc55c0869","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-5959","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":184,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5959\/revisions\/11478"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/184"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5959\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-macroeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}