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Locating the Industrial Revolution
Eric Lionel Jones
其他書名
Inducement and Response
出版
World Scientific
, 2010
主題
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Economic History
Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development
Business & Economics / Development / General
Business & Economics / Environmental Economics
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Political Science / Political Economy
ISBN
9814295264
9789814295260
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-y_Jy8UvR-sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition between regions and altering economic distributions. Despite a dysfunctional landed system, agricultural innovation meant that the south''s comparative advantage shifted towards the farm sector. Meanwhile its manufactures slowly declined. Once industry clustered in the less-benign northern environment, technological changes in manufacturing accumulated there. This book portrays the Industrial Revolution as deriving from economic competition within unique political arrangements.