British economic growth, 1270-1870
By: Stephen Broadberry, London School of Economics, Bruce M.S. Campbell, The Queen's University of Belfast, Alexander Klein, University of Kent, Mark Overton, University of Exeter, and Bas van Leeuwen, Utrecht University
Contributors: Campbell, B. M. S., author; Klein, Alexander, Dr., author; Overton, Mark, 1950- author; Leeuwen, Bas van, 1978- author
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9781107070783; 9781107676497
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic history
Description: "This is a definitive new account of Britain's economic evolution from a backwater of Europe in 1270 to the hub of the global economy in 1870. A team of leading economic historians reconstruct Britain's national accounts for the first time right back into the thirteenth century to show what really happened quantitatively during the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution. Contrary to traditional views of the earlier period as one of Malthusian stagnation, they reveal how the transition to modern economic growth built on the earlier foundations of a persistent upward trend in GDP per capita which doubled between 1270 and 1700. Featuring comprehensive estimates of population, land use, agricultural production, industrial and service sector production and GDP per capita, as well as analysis of their implications, this will be an essential reference for anyone interested in British economic history and the origins of modern economic growth more generally"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-454) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Historical national income accounting; title: Population; title: Agricultural land use; title: Agricultural production; title: Industrial and service-sector production; title: GDP and GDP per head; title: Real wage rates and GDP per head; title: Consumption; title: The social distribution of income; title: Labour productivity; title: Britain in an international context; title: Epilogue: British economic growth, 1270-1870.