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Prices and the impact of the industry in the economic growth: the cases of England (1770-1840) and Colombia (1923-1998)

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Carlos Esteban Posada () (Subgerencia de Estudios Económicos, Banco de la República)
Edgar Trujillo () (Consejo Superior de Comercio Exterior)

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The industrial development could be an engine of economic growth through several mechanisms. In this essay we analyzed only one of them: the decline of the industrial prices because of the technical change. We designed an equilibrium model of economic growth, and look at the theoretical predictions of this model for the case of a technical change in the manufacturing (one of the two sectors) leading a process of industrial price reductions and accelerated economic growth. The empirical evidence from the English Industrial Revolution (1770-1840) is pretty well interpreted with our model. In the Colombian case (1923-1998), by contrast, the evidence does not support the hypothesis that the mentioned mechanism was an important, and always in motion, engine of growth

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Article provided by Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía in its journal LECTURAS DE ECONOMÍA.

Volume (Year): (2008)
Issue (Month): 69 (Julio-Diciembre)
Pages: 163-200
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Keywords: industry; technical change; relative prices; economic growth;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
O12 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O14 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
O41 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
O52 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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