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

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

This paper describes the spread of industry from country to country as a region grows. All industrial sectors are … initially agglomerated in one country, tied together by input-output links between firms. Growth expands industry more than … other sectors, bidding up wages in the country in which industry is clustered. At some point some firms start to move away …

-tech mobile telecommunications industry. The emphasis here is on the transformation of Nokia from a producer of simple raw … material based goods to a knowledge-based high-tech company. A conclusion from this Paper is that an industry’s success is a …

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

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 …

-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 …