Was There an ‘Industrious Revolution’ Before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, c. 1300-1830

Exercise rehabilitation in the fourth industrial revolution

Three Equations Generating an Industrial Revolution?

In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the relationship between economic and demographic growth. We use simple models of endogenous growth, featuring human capital investment at the individual level in conjunction with either of two models of fertility choice, the B&B dynastic motive, and the B&J lateage-security motive. We find that exogenous improvements in agespecific survival probabilitie...

Data Integration Needs an Industrial Revolution

Organizational factors—lifecycles, staff specialization and retraining, and participants’ incentives—are too rarely considered in data integration research. We discuss how one can repackage the familiar tasks and research problems, to better fit organizations’ needs. The goal is to obtain data integration tools that support an industrial process of data integration.

Why Was the Industrial Revolution a European Phenomenon?

Introduction Introduction The new growth economics has restored technological progress to the center of the debate about why economic growth occurs. There is no question that in some way new technology can bring about a period of rapid economic growth, whether measured in terms of productivity growth or in the more subtle improvements in the quality of life that occur through improvements in pr...

Why England? Demand, Growth and Inequality During the Industrial Revolution

Why was England first? And why Europe? We present a probabilistic model that builds on big-push models by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (1989), combined with hierarchical preferences. The interaction of exogenous demographic factors (in particular the English low-pressure variant of the European marriage pattern) and redistributive institutions – such as the “old Poor Law” – combined to make an I...