Allen, Robert C.; Weisdorf, Jacob Louis - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2010
wages and prices. This is challenged by the twin theories of the ‘industrious’ revolution and the consumer revolution … economic hardship, and we detect no signs of a consumer revolution. For urban labourers, by contrast, a growing gap between … their actual working year and the work required to buy the basket provides great scope for a consumer revolution. …