rate effect, and how much a true growth effect? If there are growth effects, how much of this is based on accelerating …

A recent endogenous growth literature has focused on the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages were … linked to factor endowments, to one where modern growth has broken that link. In this Paper we present evidence on another … locate the causes in the Industrial Revolutionary forces emphasized by endogenous growth theorists, we provide evidence that …

- institutions, geography and culture - exhibit far more persistence than do the growth rates they are supposed to explain. Using a … relative both to the industrial leaders and to other primary product exporters. This fact helps explain the growth puzzle noted … by Easterly, Kremer, Pritchett and Summers more than a decade ago: that the contending fundamental determinants of growth …

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards … modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently, economic historians have presented evidence from England showing that … secular rise thereafter – must be explained both by industrial revolutionary growth forces and by global forces that opened up …