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In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This "industrious revolution" is the context in which the economic acceleration associated with the Industrial Revolution took shape. This study explores the intellectual understanding of the new importance of consumer goods as well as the actual consumer behavior of households of all income levels. De Vries examines how the activation and evolution of consumer demand shaped the course of economic development, situating consumer behavior in the context of the household economy. He considers the changing consumption goals of households from the seventeenth century to the present and analyzes how household decisions have mediated between macro-level economic growth and actual human betterment. Ultimately, de Vries' research reveals key strengths and weaknesses of existing consumer theory, suggesting revisions that add historical realism to economic abstractions. Stimmen zum Buch: "Combining an encylcopaedic knowledge of the history of consumption of early-modern north-western Europe with a vigorous determination to use recent economic theory to unlock its meaning, Jan de Vries' The Industrious Revolution is by turns fascinating, provocative and illuminating. No student of consumption, whether historian or economist, can afford to ignore it." 8John Brewer, California Institute of Technology) / "This is an important book. The appearance of 'new goods' in the eighteenth century elicited a growing work effort and provided a spur to economic growth even more important than the industrial revolution itself. A similar profusion in the last few decades (and the rise of education) has driven women out of the home again and back into work. De Vries is a masterly and imaginative historian, who demonstrates enduring regularities behind the craving for goods over the last three centuries." (Avner Offer, All Souls College, University of Oxford) / "One of the most accomplished and influential economic historians of our age has produced a magisterial work that will force the entire profession to rethink the history of the household, work, leisure, and consumption in Europe over three centuries. Based on a wide and deep knowledge of his subject, De Vries has taken a novel and original approach to the joint determination of income and consumption by households. The "Industrious Revolution" will be discussed and taught for many years." (Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University)