This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks … unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is the feedback between industrialization and wages. High wages are incentives to … use machines and industrialize, while industrialization raises wages. The model shows that industrialization and growth …

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China … industrialization. Consequently, it diverted massive amounts of agricultural resources to industry and imposed excessive grain …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …

to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of …

phase, aristocratic political systems prevail, while democracies tend to emerge with industrialization. At the same time the …

-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between industrialization (measured by employment or output shares) and incomes has … shifted downwards and moved closer to the origin. This means countries are running out of industrialization opportunities …