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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?
Van Neuss, Leif
2015
 

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Keywords :
economic history; industrial revolution
Abstract :
[en] 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.
Disciplines :
General economics & history of economic thought
Author, co-author :
Van Neuss, Leif ;  Université de Liège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Macroéconomie
Language :
English
Title :
Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?
Publication date :
December 2015
Number of pages :
93
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