Pessimism preserved: real wages in the British Industrial Revolution
The paper compares Feinstein's and Clark's consumer price and real wage indices for the British industrial revolution. The sources for their weights and component price series are evaluated. While some of Clark's innovations are improvements, many of his changes degrade the price inde...
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University of Oxford
2007
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