The Scientific Revolution and its Role in the Transition to Sustained Economic Growth

We propose a Unified Growth model that analyzes the role of Scientific Revolution in takeoff to sustained modern economic growth. Basic scientific knowledge is necessary input production applied knowledge, which, turn, fuels productivity growth and leads rising incomes. Eventually, incomes instigate fertility transition educational investments human capital accumulation. In regions where inquiry severely constrained (for religious reasons or because oppressive rulers), delayed might not occur at all. The novel mechanism we for latent towards could contribute our understanding why emerged first Europe.