Spinning the Industrial Revolution
The prevailing explanation for why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in Britain is Robert Allen's (2009) 'high?wage economy' view, which claims that the high cost of labour relative to capital and fuel incentivized innovation and the adoption of new techniques. This paper prese...
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University of Oxford
2016
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