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The Growing Dependence of Britain on Trade during the Industrial Revolution

Clark, Gregory - 2014

Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which Britain trades with North America and the rest of the world,...

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Health, Height and Welfare : Britain 1700-1980

Floud, Roderick - 1996

This paper reviews the evidence regarding the main trends in the height of the British population since the early eighteenth century. We argue that the average heights of successive birth cohorts of British males increased slowly between the middle of the eighteenth century and the first quarter...

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Technology and Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution : New Evidence from the Margins of Trade

Huberman, Michael - 2015

In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...

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Malthus to Solow

Hansen, Gary D. - 1998

A unified growth theory is developed that accounts for the roughly constant living standards displayed by world economies prior to 1800 as well as the growing living standards exhibited by modern industrial economies. Our theory also explains the industrial revolution, which is the transition...

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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions

Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2011

During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...

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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

Steckel, Richard H. - 2001

This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic …. This decline of 7.6 centimeters exceeds by a factor of two any downturns found during industrialization in several … reasonable to believe that greater exposure to pathogens accompanied urbanization and industrialization, and there is evidence of …

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Health and welfare during industrialization

Steckel, Richard H. (ed.) - 1997

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The Roots of Latin American Protectionism : Looking Before the Great Depression

Coatsworth, John H. - 2002

This paper uncovers a fact that has not been well appreciated: tariffs in Latin America were far higher than anywhere else in the century before the Great Depression. This is a surprising fact given that this region has been said to have exploited globalization forces better than most during the...

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When Britain turned inward : Protection and the shift towards Empire in Interwar Britain

de Bromhead, Alan - 2017

International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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