Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was … replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have …. These class-specific attitudes, which are rooted in the nature of pre-industrial professions, become key determinants of …