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Spatial takeoff in the first industrial revolution

Trew, Alex - In: Review of economic dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 707-725

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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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Debt into growth : how sovereign debt accelerated the first Industrial Revolution

Ventura, Jaume; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2015

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Debt into growth : how sovereign debt accelerated the first Industrial Revolution

Ventura, Jaume; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2015

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The high wage economy and the industrial revolution : a restatement

Allen, Robert C. - In: The economic history review : a journal of economic and … 68 (2015) 1, pp. 1-22

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Debt into growth : how sovereign debt accelerated the first Industrial Revolution

Ventura, Jaume; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2015

Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...

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