Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109716 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP14/18
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively adaptable and skilled labour force. Healthier and savvier English workers were better equipped to profit from the technological possibilities available to them, and to build on them. Technological change and economic growth stemmed from such human capital rather than Boserupian forces. They were the product of England's resource endowment and its institutions.
Subjects: 
economic history
industrial revolution
JEL: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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