E. A. Wrigley

The Path to Sustained Growth: England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution

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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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-316-50428-4
EAN: 9781316504284
Produktnummer: 20647158
Verlag: Cambridge
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 227 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.5 cm 347 g
Gewicht: 347

Über den Autor

E. A. Wrigley is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and co-founder of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Nineteenth-Century Society (Cambridge, 1972), Continuity, Chance and Change (Cambridge, 1988), Industrial Growth and Population Change (Cambridge, 1961), Poverty, Progress, and Population (Cambridge, 2004), The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981), People, Cities and Wealth (1987) and The Early English Censuses (2011).