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

industrialization. Consequently, it diverted massive amounts of agricultural resources to industry and imposed excessive grain …

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 …

Protectionism enjoys surprising popular support, in spite of deadweight losses. At the same time, trade barriers appear … endogenously acquires more information about his sector of employment. As a result, voters support protectionism, because they …

rules altered at most the composition of crisis-era protectionism. As to the quantum of protectionism, it is unclear how WTO … refrain from protectionism. …