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Industrial Policy and the Great Divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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The Rise of the Engineer : Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution

Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Why was the Industrial Revolution successful at generating sustained growth? Some have argued that there was a fundamental change in the way that new technology was developed during this period, but evidence for this argument remains largely anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative...

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Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …

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Sprouting Cities : How Rural America Industrialized

Eckert, Fabian; Juneau, John; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …

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Spatial Structural Change

Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non …

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Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era : A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages

Bonfatti, Roberto; Coşar, Kerem - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The last two centuries witnessed the rise and fall of empires. We construct a model which rationalises this in terms of the changing trade gains from empires. In the model, empires are arrangements that reduce trade cost between an industrial metropole and the agricultural periphery. During...

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Learning from Ricardo and Thompson : Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As...

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