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Adam Smith, watch prices, and the industrial revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

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Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 counties of England … between 1760 and 1830. Against the widespread view that high wages and cheap coal drove industrialization, we find that … industrialization was restricted to low wage areas, while energy availability (coal or water) had little impact Instead we find that …

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Precocious Albion : a new interpretation of the British industrial revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - In: Annual review of economics 6 (2014), pp. 363-389

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Agricultural output, calories and living standards in England before and during the Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2012

This paper surveys the results of four recent, separate attempts at estimating agricultural output and food availability in England and Wales at points between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. It highlights their contrasting implications for trends in economic growth and...

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Appendix to "Precocious albion : a new interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution"

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2013

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Precocious albion : a new interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2013

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Roots of the industrial revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

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Ready for revolution? : the English economy before 1800

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014

Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...

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Did science cause the industrial revolution?

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014

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Adam Smith, watch prices, and the industrial revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

Although largely absent from modern accounts of the Industrial Revolution, watches were the first mass produced consumer durable, and were Adam Smith's pre-eminent example of technological progress. In fact, Smith makes the notable claim that watch prices may have fallen by up to 95 per cent...

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