Nathan Rosenberg (November 22, 1927 – August 24, 2015) was an American economist specializing in the history of technology.
[4] Rosenberg's contribution to understanding technological change was acknowledged by Douglass C. North in his Nobel Prize lecture entitled "Economic Performance through Time".
Birdzell, Jr. argued that Western Europe's economic success grew out of a loosening of political and religious controls,[7] and that Western medieval life was not actually organized in castles, cathedrals, and cities; but that it was organized more in the rural areas in huts and in places with reliable access to food.
This hypothesis is tested and supported by Joel Mokyr in his contribution to the Festschrift-issue of Research Policy, which was published in honor of Nathan Rosenberg in 1994.
[10][11] Rosenberg died in 2015 and was buried at the Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose.