Social science is entering a golden age, marked by the confluence of explosive growth in new data and analytic methods, interdisciplinary approaches, recognition that these ingredients are necessary to solve more challenging problems facing our world. We discuss how developing “lingua franca” can encourage research, providing two case studies (social networks behavioral economics) illustrate th...

I reconsider the growth of Western Europe during the Golden Age of European Economic Growth after the Second World War. The preceding thirty years of conflict and depression impeded the normal path of industrialisation in these countries, and they had too much labour in agriculture for their level of income and stage of development at the end of the war. The disequilibrium added to other more o...