Engel`s Pause: A Pessimist`s Guide to the British Industrial Revolution
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Keywords
British Industrial Revolution; Kuznets Curve; Inequality; Savings; Investment;JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2007-12-01 (All new papers)
- NEP-HIS-2007-12-01 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2007-12-01 (Labour Economics)
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