Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe

Mokyr, Joel

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“…If anything, the loci of the modern sector tended to be in the regions that had been transformed by the rise of rural cottage industries in the previous two centuries (Jones, 1968;Mokyr, 1976b): Lancashire and the West Riding in England, Flanders in the Southern Netherlands, the Zurich region in Switzerland, Catalonia in Spain. Urban historians such as Corfield specifically deny urbanization a causal role in bringing about the Industrial Revolution.…”

Section: Cities and The Industrial Revolutionmentioning

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Urbanization, Technological Progress, and Economic History

Mokyr¹

1995

Urban Agglomeration and Economic Growth

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It has become customary among economic historians to distinguish four different sources of economic growth (see, for example, Mokyr, 1990, for an exposition). Although these sources are interconnected in many ways and usually occur simultaneously, they are separable at least in the sense that conceivably we could observe one without the others. The four "horsemen of economic growth" are the gains from trade and specialization (also known as Smithian growth after Parker, 1984), technological change, capital accumulation, and efficiency growth due to changes in the internal allocation of resources.In this paper I examine the role of cities in technological change in the rise of the European economies over the long run. Traditionally, the role of cities has been seen above all as one of promoting Smithian growth. Others, however, have stressed the important role of cities in technological change as well. At first glance, it seems rather obvious that cities should have promoted technological progress. On the demand side, cities provided large markets for better and cheaper products. This demand presumably allowed inventors to cover their fixed costs, focused their efforts toward what consumers wanted, and thus sustained invention. Moreover, by their very nature, cities stimulated transportation technology, as they depended on supplies from the countryside.

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Section: Cities and The Industrial Revolutionmentioning

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Urbanization, Technological Progress, and Economic History

Mokyr¹

1995

Urban Agglomeration and Economic Growth

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“…Flinn, 1966). The second view, based on what Mokyr (1976) called the growing-up models, suggests that industrial progress was more likely to happen in areas in which labor, considered as a scarce resource, was abundant and cheap (see e.g. Lewis, 1954;Pollard, 1978) 1920 .…”

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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

Neuss

2015

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The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated overview of the literature devoted to identifying the causes of the British industrial revolution. Why did the industrial revolution, a fascinating and multifaceted event which brought about modern economic growth, occur in eighteenth-century Britain? This question has animated a lot of discussions among scholars and is still nowadays heatedly debated in the literature. This debate is reflected in the large spectrum of theories which aim at explaining the true origins of the British industrialization. The paper first sheds light on a rising debate concerning the evolution of British incomes per capita before the British industrial revolution and the "Great Divergence". The paper then investigates the proposed causes of the British industrialization, aggregating them into seven broad categories, i.e. (1) geography and natural resources, (2) demography, (3) agricultural progress, (4) demand-side factors, (5) trade and empire, (6) institutional and political factors, (7) science, technology, and human capital.

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“…" Para una explicación económica del fracaso de la industrialización en los Países Bajos, véanse Mokyr (1976) y Griffiths (1979). ponder fácilmente, existían a este respecto dos diferencias importantes entre los dos países.…”

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La Revolucion Industrial y la Nueva Historia Economica (I)

Mokyr¹

1987

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Ha transcurrido casi un siglo desde la publicación de la famosa obra de Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on the Industrial Revolution (1884) ^ Desde entonces, historiadores de todas las escuelas han llegado a la conclusión de que la Revolución Industrial en Gran Bretaña constituyó un nuevo punto de partida en la historia de la humanidad, un hecho de tanta importancia para la vida cotidiana que puede compararse con la aparición del monoteísmo o con el desarrollo del lenguaje. De este modo, ha surgido una extensa literatura escrita por historiadores, economistas y sociólogos, ingleses y extranjeros, tanto de izquierdas como de derechas, que trata de sus diversos aspectos. Sin embargo, los expertos no se han puesto de acuerdo sobre los problemas fundamentales. En primer lugar se encuentra la mera cuestión de la definición: ¿qué fue exactamente la Revolución Industrial? ' De los muchos-intentos que se han efectuado para resumir lo que supuso la Revolución Industrial, el de Perkin es quizá el más elocuente. En sus propias palabras, fue «una revolución * Versión revisada y ampliada de la introducción a Mokyr (1985). ' Muchos colegas hicieron comentarios a versiones anteriores del manuscrito, lo que originó importantes mejoras tanto de estilo como de contenido. Entre ellos se encuen-

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Growing-up and the industrial revolution in Europe

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 publications

Urbanization, Technological Progress, and Economic History

Urbanization, Technological Progress, and Economic History

Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

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