Joel Moker won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for his study and identification of the prerequisites for sustainable growth through technological advances. The question Moker addressed was how Europe in the 18th century escaped the Malthusian trap that had plagued humanity for centuries, while other countries such as China failed to do so. How did Europe connect the knowledge of why (science) with the knowledge of how (technology) and combine propositional knowledge (why) with prescriptive knowledge (how)?