There are two views of the British Industrial Revolution in the literature today. The more traditional description, represented by the views of Ashton and Landes, sees the Industrial Revolution as a broad change in the British economy and society. This broad view of the Industrial Revolution has...

I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both subfields study economic development; the difference is that economic history focuses on high-wage countries while economic development focuses on low-wage economies. My argument is based on recent...

Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman: A model for the explanation of industrial expansion during the 19. century. With a application to the American iron industry. aus: The Journal of Political Economy. 77.1969, May/June. S. 148-162