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| | Over the last week or so, I have been heavily involved in a twitterminar (yes, I am coining thatportemanteauterm to designate academic discussions on twitter - proof that some good can come out of social media) between myself, Judy Stephenson , Ben Schneider , Benjamin Guilbert, Mark Koyama, Pseudoerasmus, Anton Howes(whose main flaw is that...
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| | Spinning the Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries (Oxford) and Benjamin Schneider (Cornell) Abstract The prevailing explanation for why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in Britain is Robert Allen's (2009) 'high-wage economy' view, which claims that the high cost of labour relative to capital and fuel incentivized innovation and the adoption of new techniques. This paper...
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| | How have women been paid for their work? More broadly, how are different skills in general rewarded in the labor market? The prices of different things are at the core of economics, and wages - that is, the price of labor - are the most important prices. Claudia Goldin, 2023's Nobel Laureate in Economics, uses...
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| NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I'm not an economic historian, but like most growth economists I am an avid consumer of economic history. Maybe it's our version of "physics envy". Regardless, it isn't always obvious why growth economists look backwards so much...