Hrothgar John Habakkuk (1915–2002)

F. M. L. Thompson

Chapter 18 in The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics, 2021, pp 417-440 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Hrothgar John Habakkuk was predominantly a historian of English landed society who tackled the major issue of why the peasantry declined and large landowners dominated. Alongside this consistent interest, he opened up a major topic of the distinctive features of technology in Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century which he explained by factor endowments. His interest in demography pointed to what has since become the dominant view that the increase in the English population during the Industrial Revolution depended on changes in the birth rate driven by changes in marriage. Despite his considerable achievements, Habakkuk was uneasy with the rise of the ‘new economic history’ or cliometrics and turned to an administrative career as head of a college and Vice-Chancellor at Oxford.

Keywords: Land ownership; Peasantry; Technological change; Demography; Cliometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_18

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