The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth
The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth

Author: R. M. Hartwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1351696947

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This volume, first published in 1971, brings together eleven essays and articles on the history of the industrial revolution. Method is the central consideration, and the author discusses ways in which historians have analysed the industrial revolution, demonstrates inconsistency and bias in their interpretations, and suggests an appropriate framework of economic theory for future studies. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.

Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850
Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850

Author: S. Pollard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1136587624

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These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors. Each paper is accompanied by a summary of the discussion which followed. The problems encountered in such an undertaking are examined, a major one being definition: what to include in the term 'capital', how to measure or isolate expenditure under that heading, and how to deal with changes which have made the definitions and practices of present-day national income estimates inapplicable to earlier centuries. Sources are also examined in depth as statistical information is not only uncertain and often unreliable, but of different value and completeness for different sectors of the economy. This book was first published in 1971.

The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution
The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution

Author: Jan Luiten van Zanden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-06-17

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9047428625

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Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, deals with the institutions that developed in Europe, and measures their relative efficiency over time and compared with other parts of Eurasia. It traces the growth of human capital in the centuries between 1000 and 1800, in comparison with China, Japan and India. It also demonstrates how important the European Marriage Pattern was for understanding Europe’s past. The result is a new synthesis of the origins of the Industrial Revolution.