Nutrition, Population Growth and the Industrial Revolution in England

John Komlos

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

Abstract: Argues that the improvements in nutritional status of the English population in the 1730s was instrumental in the demographic and industrial revolution that started a generation later when those birth cohorts reached adulthood.

Keywords: Nutrition; Population Growth; Industrial Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J11 N33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Social Science History, 1990, 14, 69-91

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