Gragnolati, Ugo; Moschella, Daniele; Pugliese, Emanuele - In: The Journal of Economic History 71 (2011) 02, pp. 455-460
Why was the Industrial Revolution British? In a recent article published in this <sc>Journal</sc>, Robert Allen argues that only in England was the price of labor relative to capital high enough to justify the adoption of the labor-saving technologies which characterized the Industrial Revolution. To...