findings suggest that much of the evidence on the "industrialization puzzle" during the nineteenth century could reflect …

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …

A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China … factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on spatial …

, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio …

During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized …

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia … industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the … industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while …