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Industrial Policy and the Great Divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …

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Industrialization and health in historical perspective

Steckel, Richard H. (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa

McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...

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The Rise of the Engineer : Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution

Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Why was the Industrial Revolution successful at generating sustained growth? Some have argued that there was a fundamental change in the way that new technology was developed during this period, but evidence for this argument remains largely anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative...

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Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America

Atack, Jeremy; Margo, Robert A.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Sprouting Cities : How Rural America Industrialized

Eckert, Fabian; Juneau, John; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …

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Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution

Heblich, Stephan; Redding, Stephen; Voth, Hans-Joachim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Did overseas slave-holding by Britons accelerate the Industrial Revolution? We provide theory and evidence on the contribution of slave wealth to Britain's growth prior to 1835. We compare areas of Britain with high and low exposure to the colonial plantation economy, using granular data on...

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Spatial Structural Change

Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non …

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