Thinking about the Industrial Revolution

John H. Komlos ()

Articles by John Komlos from Department of Economics, University of Munich

Abstract: Argues that the Industrial Revolution is best conceptualized as having grown out of a process that began millennia earlier, and became possible only when the European populations were able to escape from the Malthusian trap which constrained their growth in prior centuries.

Keywords: Industrial Revolution; Malthusian Trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 N33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Journal of European Economic History, 1989, 191-206

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