The industrial revolution and the great divergence: recent findings from historical national accounting

Recent work in historical national accounting is surveyed, focusing on the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence. Eighteenth century Britain was the first economy to make the transition to modern economic growth, but this breakthrough built on earlier episodes of per capita income growth wi...

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Autor Principal: Broadberry, SN
Outros autores: Bisin, A
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021