, a process that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world … world financial markets also reduced the cheap capital advantage of the leaders. However, ever-cheaper labor was not a …

explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … provided. We test both hypotheses using calibrated general equilibrium models of the British economy and the rest of the world … trade with the rest of the world, not the American colonies, that allowed Britain to export its rapidly expanding textile …