Discover how industrialization transformed economies with rising wages and social shifts. Explore industrial history's effect ...

The federal government has moved to rejuvenate Nigeria’s industrial sector and position the nation as a global industrial leader by inaugurating the Industrial Revolution Work Group (IRWG). The group ...

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, declared the world on the precipice of a “technical revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

The last few centuries have seen tremendous growth in the global economy as we’ve evolved from an agriculture-based society to today’s digital society. We’ve moved from being nomads and hunters to ...

As part of my due diligence for securities that I am interested in, I follow the macro events that dictate which investments may perform better at various times throughout the economic cycle. Despite ...

The speed of capital being deployed by the U.S. private sector on the artificial intelligence front is happening at a dizzying pace. Four U.S. companies—Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft—are ...

George Mason University economist Mark Koyama draws parallels between the ancient Roman world and the world of nearly a millennium later. He portrays Rome as a market economy recognizable to Adam ...

Long before the onset of the first industrial revolution around 1760, it is recorded that early humans used crude weapons to hunt, employed basic methods to fish in shallow waters, and toiled with ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...