the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … after the onset of French industrialization. Alternative measures of development such as soldier height, disposable income …

technology of industrialization was adapted to these factor prices and is not profitable in low-wage economies. The cross-over to … known as Cliometrics, and a non-random survey of recent research emphasizing the emerging methodology of the New Economic …

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the …

of early British industrialization supports the thesis that economic advances depend on specialized scientific training … British industrialization, by assessing the backgrounds, education and inventive activity of the major contributors to …

, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …