Economic Growth in France and Britain, 1830–1910: A Review of the Evidence
- 3 March 1984
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 44 (1) , 49-67
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700031363
Abstract
Recent revisionist treatments of nineteenth-century French economic growth are examined and reveal that the pattern of economic growth in France was indeed substantially different from the unusual pattern in Great Britain. Labor productivity in French industry was probably lower than in Britain, contrary to the claims of O'Brien and Keyder, and neither growth of per capita income nor the level of income in France in 1910 was remarkable. The article thus supports a position between that of early writers and that of the recent revisionists.Keywords
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