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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historic city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083731
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historic city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904669
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historical city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969269
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Annual Estimates of Swedish GDP in 1720-1800
Edvinsson, Rodney - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
For the period 1800 onwards, annual figures over GDP and GDP per capita for Sweden have been presented in different studies. For the 18th century no such annual series exist. The aim of this paper is to present annual data on GDP and GDP per capita in volume values for Sweden for the whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419163
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How Substitutable are Fixed Factors in Production? Evidence from Pre-industrial England
Wilde, Joshua - Department of Economics, University of South Florida - 2013
The extent to which fixed factors of production such as land constrain per-capita income growth has been a widely discussed topic in economics since at least Malthus (1798). Whether fixed factors limit growth depends crucially on two variables: the substitutability of fixed factors in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659026
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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123872
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Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869
Clark, Gregory; Jacks, David - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2006
How important was coal to the Industrial Revolution? Despite the huge growth of output, and the grip of coal and steam … on the popular image of the Industrial Revolution, recent cliometric accounts have assumed coal mining mattered little to … the Industrial Revolution. In contrast both E. A. Wrigley and Kenneth Pomeranz have made coal central to the story. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620375
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Regional income inequality in Italy in the long run (1871–2001). Patterns and determinants
Felice, Emanuele - Unitat d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de … - 2013
The chapter presents up-to-date estimates of Italy’s regional GDP, with the present borders, in ten-year benchmarks from 1871 to 2001, and proposes a new interpretative hypothesis based on long-lasting socio-institutional differences. The inverted U-shape of income inequality is confirmed:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010836440
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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrialisation: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs
Baldwin, R.E.; Martin, P.; Ottaviano, G.I.P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
This paper takes a step towards formalizing the theoretical interconnections among four post-Indutrial Revolution phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich 'northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid trade expansion. Specifically, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639328
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Europe's many integrations: Geography and grain markets, 1620–1913
Chilosi, David; Murphy, Tommy E.; Studer, Roman; … - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 1, pp. 46-68
a gradual and step-wise rather than sudden process, and that early modern market structures were shaped by geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042830