Path to Sustained Growth
England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution
Before the industrial revolution prolonged economic growth was unachievable. All economies were organic, dependent on plant photosynthesis to provide food, raw materials, and energy. This was true both of heat energy, derived from burning wood, and mechanical energy provided chiefly by human and animal muscle. The flow of energy from the sun captured by plant photosynthesis was the basis of all production and consumption. Britain began to escape the old restrictions by making increasing use of the vast stock of energy contained in coal measures, initially as a source of heat energy but eventually also of mechanical energy, thus making possibl…
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- ISBN: 978-1-316-54079-4
- EAN: 9781316540794
- Produktnummer: 19567613
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'630 KB
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