The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

By Robert C. Allen. 2009

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260–1850 (2019, positive): “In this case, technical change supposedly skewed income in favour of profits, now benefiting capitalists over labourers (e.g. Allen, 2009a).”
The economic growth enigma: Capital, labour and useful energy? (2014, background): “Having said that Allen (2009) and Wrigley (2010) present broadly similar conclusions with respect to the English industrial revolution.”
Productive energy use and economic growth: Energy, physical and human capital relationships (2015, background): “Ecological economists (Daly, 1997; Georgescu-Roegen, 1971) and historians of economics (Allen, 2009; Moe, 2010) highlight energy as a key input factor for economic growth and also for development.”
The Rise of Robots in China (2019, background): “In this respect, the robot revolution in China reminds us of how high labor costs accompanied the Industrial Revolution in 18th-century Britain (as discussed in Allen 2009).”
When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South (2012, positive): “Low-wage agricultural labor may discourage labor-saving technological innovation (Habakkuk, 1962; Allen, 2009; Acemoglu, 2010) or the adoption of new capital-intensive technologies (Atkinson and Stiglitz, 1969; Basu and Weil, 1998).”
Coal and the European Industrial Revolution (2014, background): “And in a recent cliometric contribution, Allen (2009) has argued that innovation during the British Industrial Revolution was geared towards saving expensive labour, and replacing it with cheap capital and coal.”
Firm Response to Competitive Shocks: Evidence from China’s Minimum Wage Policy (2020, neutral): “∆ ln =  £  ×∆ ln ¤ +   +  ∆ ln min + ×  +  +  (3)”