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Austin Kennedy

Economist affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder at the time of the Enlightenment-ideals textual-analysis paper, co-authored with Almelhem, Iyigun and Rubin.

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Published Quarterly Journal of Economics Online 29 Nov 2025 Published Jan 2026
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

Ali Almelhem · Murat Iyigun · Austin Kennedy · Jared Rubin

This paper tests Joel Mokyr's claim that Britain's industrialization was preceded and enabled by a cultural shift — specifically, that Enlightenment ideals produced a "progress-oriented" view of …