from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … the French industrial revolution, the research establishes that regions in which industrialization was more intensive …. Nevertheless, intensive industrialization has had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by the turn of …

with disdain for work. We propose an economic theory of preference formation where both the divergence of attitudes across … social classes and the ensuing reversal of economic fortunes are equilibrium outcomes. In our theory, parents shape their … success once industrialization transforms the economic landscape …

equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …