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 i...
The available statistics show that there was a sharp acceleration of the growth of British industria...
At the end of the eighteenth century, England and France both underwent revolutions: France the Fren...
Britain's labour force industrialised early. The industrial and service sectors already accounted fo...
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Euro...
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
GRIFFIN Emma A short history of the British industrial revolution Bew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 201...
The industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world hist...
We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 countie...
Why was England first? And why Europe? We present a probabilistic model that builds on big-push mode...
For contemporaries, Britain’s success in developing the technologies of the early Industrial Revolut...
Throughout the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, a complex combination of multipl...
Why was England first? And why Europe? We present a probabilistic model that builds on big-push mode...
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomeno...
Why was Britain the cradle of the Industrial Revolution? Answers vary: some focus on resource endowm...
Why was England the cradle of the Industrial Revolution? The present work shows that scale economies...
The available statistics show that there was a sharp acceleration of the growth of British industria...
At the end of the eighteenth century, England and France both underwent revolutions: France the Fren...
Britain's labour force industrialised early. The industrial and service sectors already accounted fo...
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Euro...
1There has been a debate about the breadth of technological progress during the industrial revolutio...
GRIFFIN Emma A short history of the British industrial revolution Bew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 201...
The industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world hist...
We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 countie...
Why was England first? And why Europe? We present a probabilistic model that builds on big-push mode...
For contemporaries, Britain’s success in developing the technologies of the early Industrial Revolut...
Throughout the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, a complex combination of multipl...
Why was England first? And why Europe? We present a probabilistic model that builds on big-push mode...
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomeno...
Why was Britain the cradle of the Industrial Revolution? Answers vary: some focus on resource endowm...
Why was England the cradle of the Industrial Revolution? The present work shows that scale economies...
The available statistics show that there was a sharp acceleration of the growth of British industria...
At the end of the eighteenth century, England and France both underwent revolutions: France the Fren...
Britain's labour force industrialised early. The industrial and service sectors already accounted fo...