The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal

Ugo Gragnolati (), Daniele Moschella () and Emanuele Pugliese

LEM Papers Series from Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

Abstract: Was the spinning jenny profitable only in England? No. The present work finds that the jenny was profitable also in France. Such result contrasts recent findings on the topic by revising basic computations on the profitability of the spinning jenny.

Keywords: Industrial Revolution; choice of technique; spinning jenny (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N00 N01 N70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05-31
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2010-09.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal (2011)
Working Paper: The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal (2011)
Working Paper: The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ssa:lemwps:2010/09

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LEM Papers Series from Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).