The Macroeconomic Aggregates for England, 1209-2008

Gregory Clark

No 295, Working Papers from University of California, Davis, Department of Economics

Abstract: Estimates are developed of the major macroeconomic aggregates ? wages, land rents, interest rates, prices, factor shares, sectoral shares in output and employment, and real wages ? for England by decade between 1209 and 2008. The efficiency of the economy 1209-2008 is also estimated. One finding is that the growth of real wages in the Industrial Revolution era and beyond was faster than the growth of output per person. Indeed until recently the greatest recipient of modern growth in England has been unskilled workers. The data also creates a number of puzzles, the principle one being the very high levels of output and efficiency estimated for England in the medieval era. This data is thus inconsistent with the general notion that there was a period of Smithian growth between 1300 and 1800 which preceded the Industrial Revolution, as expressed in such recent works as De Vries (2008).

Keywords: Long; Run; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N1 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 105
Date: 2009-10-27
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