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Ready for revolution? : the English economy before 1800

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014

Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...

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What made Great Britain so great? : from the fiscal-military state to the first industrial revolution

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Roots of the Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 counties of England … between 1760 and 1830. Against the widespread view that high wages and cheap coal drove industrialization, we find that … industrialization was restricted to low wage areas, while energy availability (coal or water) had little impact Instead we find that …

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Roots of the industrial revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

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"War, what is it good for?" : the industrial revolution!

Billington, Stephen D. - 2018

Did the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars contribute to the Industrial Revolution? Recent scholarship argues warfare was an important factor in explaining Britain's industrialisation, by encouraging the invention and diffusion of key technologies with military applications. I re-examine...

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