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Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation During the Industrial Revolution

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2012

time. Yet we know remarkably little about why industrialization occurred so much earlier in some parts of the world than in … industrialization probabilities. The paper also explores the availability of nutrition for poorer segments of society. We examine the … industrialization. Simulations using parameter values for other countries show that Britain's early escape was only partly due to chance …

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Accounting for breakout in Britain : the industrial revolution through a Malthusian lens

Tepper, Alexander; Borowiecki, Karol Jan - 2013

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime. It identifies several factors that determine the fastest rate at which the population can grow without engendering declining living standards; this is termed maximum...

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