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Innovation, Technological Change And The British Agricultural Revolution

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  • James B. Ang

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  • Rajabrata Banerjee
  • Jakob B. Madsen

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Theory, historiography and empirical evidence suggest that agriculture is the key to economic development. This paper examines the extent to which productivity advances in British agriculture in the period 1620-1850 were driven by technological progress. Measuring technology by patents and new book titles on agricultural methods, the results indicate that technological progress has played a significant part in productivity advances. Furthermore, the results show that research effort has permanent growth effects, consistent with the prediction of Schumpeterian growth theory.

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Paper provided by Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University in its series CAMA Working Papers with number 2010-11.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: Apr 2010
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Handle: RePEc:een:camaaa:2010-11

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