"The Rise and Fall of the Factory System: Technology, firms, and households since the Industrial Revolution".
"Why was the Industrial Revolution a European Phenomenon?" Forthcoming in the Supreme Court Economic Review (University of Chicago Press), 2003.
"The Enduring Riddle of The European Miracle: The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution". Presented to the all University of California Conference on Economic Convergence and Divergence in Historical Perspective, Irvine, Nov. 8-10 2002.
"Thinking about Technology and Institutions." Presented to the Macalester College International Roundtable 'Prometheus?s Bequest: Technology and Change' October 10-12, 2002.
"Useful Knowledge as an Evolving System: the view from Economic history" Presented to the Conference on "The Economy as an Evolving System" in honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, Santa Fe, Nov. 16-18, 2001.
"?Mercantilism, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution." Presented to the Conference on "Eli Heckscher, 1879-1953" Stockholm, May 22-24, 2003.
"?Long-term Economic Growth and the History of technology."" Draft chapter for Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, eds., Handbook of Economic Growth.
"The Contribution of Economic History to the study of Innovation and Technical Change: 1750-1914.?" Draft chapter for Bronwyn Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Technical Change.
"Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth ?" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2009, pp. 349-355.
"The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth?" Max Weber Lecture, European University, Florence, 2007.
"The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution ?" in Elhanan Helpman, ed., Institutions and Economic Performance. Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 64-119.