La historia de los niveles de vida en Inglaterra, 1200-1800. Problemas y enfoques

Christopher Dyer
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Christopher Dyer: University of Birmingham

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 1998, issue 16, 101-117

Abstract: This essay examines recent research on English standards of living and consumption between 1200 and1800.lt considers Malthusian and neo-Malthusian concepts, and finds them inadequate as explanations of the broad trends of economic and social change. In particular a `subsistence gap` is identified, whereby living standards calculated in theory seem to underestimate the level of consumption. This leads to a critical review of the `consumer revolution` as a phenomenon confined to the 18th century, and identifies non-revolutionary developments in consumption in the early modern and late medieval periods. Future avenues for research are proposed.

Keywords: : standards of living; pre-industrial England; consumer revolution; agrarian history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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