The Industrial Revolution in miniature: the spinning jenny in Britain, France, and India

This paper uses the adoption and invention of the spinning jenny as a test case to understand why the industrial revolution occurred in Britain in the eighteenth century rather than in France or India. It is shown that wages were much higher relative to capital prices in Britain than in other count...

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主要作者: Allen, R
格式: Working paper
出版: University of Oxford 2007