th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain …

growth was at work until the 19th century. Furthermore, we document changes in the propagation mechanism from real wages on … population growth over time that feature prominently in Unified Growth Theory. Most remarkably, in contrast to earlier empirical …

Modern economic growth started in the West in the early nineteenth century. This survey discusses the precise … connection between the Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of growth, and connects it to the intellectual and economic … factors underlying the growth of useful knowledge. The connections between science, technology and human capital are re …

This chapter surveys the history of modern economic growth and suggests a number of mechanisms that drove the …

turn, slowed down growth. In this essay a preliminary reconstruction of the balance of payments on current account allows …

Crowding-out during the British Industrial Revolution has long been one of the leading explanations for slow growth …, and that the magnitude of the effect is important enough to explain at least partly why British growth during the period …

This paper presents a new econometric model for analysing population growth at the village and town level. It develops … markets disappeared and urban markets grew. This shake-out had significant implications for population growth at the local …

The Industrial Revolution decisively changed economywide productivity growth rates. For successful economies, measured … efficiency growth rates increased from close to zero to close to 1% per year in the blink of an eye, in terms of the long history …