British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 42 (2) , 267-289
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700027431
Abstract
New indices of industrial production show that Britain's industrial growth in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century was about a third slower than currently available estimates indicate. Therefore, mid-eighteenth-century industrial output was nearly twice as high as previously assumed.Keywords
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