The History of Book Production in Western Europe: Innovation & Economic Growth
graph by Max Roser/Our World in Data, slow reveal by Jenna Laib
(Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)
Type of Graph: line graph
Visualization Source: Max Roser (2021) – “What is economic growth? And why is it so important?” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-economic-growth’ [Online Resource]
Data Source: Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten Van Zanden (2009) — Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, a Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries.The Journal of Economic History Vol. 69, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 409-445.
Potential Math Content: line graphs, rates, ratios, population, decimals, estimating values for points
Potential Content Connections: economy, innovation, technology, books, publishing
Sustainable Development Goal(s):
#8 – Decent work and economic growth
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