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British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution

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Harley, C. Knick

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New indices of industrial production show that Britain's industrial growth in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century was about a third slower than currently available estimates indicate. Therefore, mid-eighteenth-century industrial output was nearly twice as high as previously assumed.

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Article provided by Cambridge University Press in its journal The Journal of Economic History.

Volume (Year): 42 (1982)
Issue (Month): 02 (June)
Pages: 267-289
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