Engel's Pause: A Pessimist's Guide to the British Industrial Revolution.
The paper reviews the macroeconomic data describing the British economy from 1760 to 1913 and shows that it passed through a two stage evolution of inequality. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the real wage stagnated while output per worker expanded. The profit rate doubled and the share...
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| 语言: | English |
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2007
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