Britain was first, though the classical (and many of the neoclassical) economists did not recognize that its course was … times and places. Productivity in cotton textiles, for example, grew at computer-industry rates, and continued to into the … have shown that China led the West in 1500, and maybe as late as 1750, then fell dramatically behind. It was the …

This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history …

didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In <i …-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions … workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization …

industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic … capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …

industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic … capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …

This paper tells the story of the field of the history of economic thought in relation to the changing boundaries … between the disciplines of economics and economic history. The most important period was the late nineteenth century when …, after a couple of decades during which both economists and historians took an interest in the history of economic ideas …

, industrialization in dependent countries in 1960 is found to be significantly lower than in sovereign countries. This result is shown to …

, would be as important as the India trade. Foreign trade is not a net gain, but a way of producing importables at the … explained, or even the 100% in the first century in Britain. Trade is anyway too old and too widespread to explain a uniquely … the gigantic British cotton textile industry. And if small causes lead to large consequences, the model is instable, and …

way that Britain was in the second half of the eighteenth century, evidence from the cotton spinning sector confirms the … adopted by the cotton industry in the 1840s, the diffusion of the spinning jenny had occurred earlier in the 1790s. In this … relationship between the prices of labour and capital.Finally, we focus on the cotton spinning sector to determine the potential …