Joel Mokyr - Catabatic

That humans quest for cosmic dawn

Jan 24, 2026 5 min read

From 'Cosmic dawn: the search for the primordial hydrogen signal', Physics World, November 18, 2025: The EDGES instrument is a dipole antenna, which resembles a ping-pong table with a gap in…

Mokyr hearts Nobel Prizes

Dec 14, 2025 4 min read

Analysis Science Brian Keating Enlightenment genius history of science impedialism Joel Mokyr Nobel Prizes prescriptive knowledge upper tail

I don’t like Joel Mokyr’s history of progress and have written about that before. I also have a longer analysis and explanation of my issues coming soon in The Hindu. On December 8 I got more occasion…

A bad Nobel for Mokyr

Oct 14, 2025 2 min read

Analysis Op-eds Science California School Enlightenment industrial revolution industrialisation Joel Mokyr Nobel Foundation Nobel Prizes

The American-Israeli economic historian Joel Mokyr has been awarded one half of the 2025 special Nobel Prize for economics "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through te…