TY  - JOUR
AU  - Temin,Peter
TI  - Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 81
PY  - 1996
Y2  - March 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0081
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0081.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Peter Temin
Department of Economics
MIT, Room E52-271A
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA  02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-3126
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: ptemin@mit.edu
AB  - There are two views of the British Industrial Revolution in the literature today.  The more traditional description, represented by the views of Ashton and Landes, sees the Industrial Revolution as a broad change in the British economy and society.  This broad view of the Industrial Revolution has been challenged by Crafts and Harley who see the Industrial Revolution as a much narrower phenomenon, as the result of technical change in a few industries. This paper presents a test of these views using the Ricardian model of international trade with many goods.  British trade data are used to implement the test and discriminate between the two views of the Industrial Revolution.
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