require reform, not just investment. …

Why did England industrialize first? And why was Europe ahead of the rest of the world? Unified growth theory in the … 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 …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …