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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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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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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
, raising average wages significantly, which in turn facilitated industrialization. We analyze the rise of this first socio …
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2011
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461665
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461848
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462312
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462955
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2008
, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464163
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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
Clark, Gregory - 2008
For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464570
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Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez - 2008
Brazil, Mexico and a few other Latin American republics enjoyed faster industrialization after 1870 than did the rest … the secular rise in the net barter terms of trade which reversed de-industrialization forces, thus favoring manufacturing … contributed most to industrialization among the Latin American leaders, long before their mid 20th century adoption of ISI …
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