Rosés, Joan R.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2007
The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards … and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in …, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a …