th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain …

growth was at work until the 19th century. Furthermore, we document changes in the propagation mechanism from real wages on … population growth over time that feature prominently in Unified Growth Theory. Most remarkably, in contrast to earlier empirical …

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime … declining living standards; this is termed maximum sustainable population growth. We then apply the framework to Britain and … find a dramatic increase in sustainable population growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution, well before the …

growth was at work until the 19th century. Furthermore, we document changes in the propagation mechanism from real wages on … population growth over time that feature prominently in Unified Growth Theory. Most remarkably, in contrast to earlier empirical …

We develop a quantitative model that is consistent with three principal building blocks of Unified Growth Theory: the … (iii) rising human capital, combined with the increasing elasticity of substitution between child quantity and quality …

Modern economic growth started in the West in the early nineteenth century. This survey discusses the precise … connection between the Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of growth, and connects it to the intellectual and economic … factors underlying the growth of useful knowledge. The connections between science, technology and human capital are re …

This chapter surveys the history of modern economic growth and suggests a number of mechanisms that drove the …