Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american economic historian”. Today it says “american and israeli economic historian and the robert h”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli American economic historian”. It now reads “Economic historian (born 1946)”.
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Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is an American and Israeli economic historian .1Mokyr was born in the Netherlands and raised in Israel . Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University .2Mokyr holds a joint appointment in economics as well as a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University .3He is particularly interested in the economic history of technology and population, but considers himself a general-purpose economic historian. A former editor of the Journal of Economic History and President of the Economic History Association , he served as the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History , and continues to be editor in chief of a book series published by Princeton University Press , The Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World . A former chair of the Economics Department and President of the Economic History Association, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a number of comparable institutions in Europe. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (5Vols) . Princeton Economic History of the Western World , accessed 2009-09-08.4
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Joel Mokyr (PhD Yale, 1974) is an American economic historian . Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University . He holds a joint appointment in economics as well as a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv . He is particularly interested in the economic history of technology and population, but considers himself a general-purpose economic historian. A former editor of the Journal of Economic History, he served as the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, and continues to be editor in chief of a book series published by Princeton University Press, The Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World. A former chair of the Economics Department and President of the Economic History Association, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a number of comparable institutions in Europe. Princeton Economic History of the Western World , accessed 2009-09-08.
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Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Netherlands -born American-Israeli economic historian .He is a professor of economics and history at Northwestern University , where he has taught since 1974; in 1994 he was named the Robert H.He is also a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the University of Tel Aviv 's Eitan Berglas School of Economics."The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries".The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society . 31 (2): 20– 23.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli American economic historian Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Netherlands -born American-Israeli economic historian . He is a professor of economics and history at Northwestern University , where he has taught since 1974; in 1994 he was named the Robert H. He is also a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the University of Tel Aviv 's Eitan Berglas School of Economics. "The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". S2CID 154791174 . de Bromhead, Alan (Winter 2017). The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society . 31 (2): 20– 23.
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Israeli American economic historian Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Dutch-born American-Israeli economic historian who has been a professor of economics and history and the Robert H.Since 2001, he has also been the Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University . "The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". S2CID 154791174 . de Bromhead, Alan (Winter 2017). The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society . 31 (2): 20– 23.
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