Week 5. Technological progress

Lecture

Kelly, Morgan, and Cormac O Grada, "Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 131 no. 4 (2016), pp. 1727-52.

Crafts, Nicholas, "Macroinventions, economic growth, and 'industrial revolution' in Britain and France," EHR, vol. 48, no. 3 (1995), pp. 591-98.

Allen, Robert. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. Part II: The Industrial Revolution, pp. 133-276 Long selection, but good and readable. Consider also Allen's Very Short Introduction.

Further

Bruland, K., "Industrialisation and Technological Change," Ch. 5 in CEHMB, vol. I., pp. 117-146.

Crafts, Nicholas, "Exogenous or Endgogenous Growth? The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered," JEH, vol. 55 no. 4 (Dec. 1995), pp. 745-72.

Fremdling, Rainer, "Transfer Patterns of British Technology to the Continent: The Case of the Iron Industry," EREH, vol. 4 (2000), pp. 195-222.

Griffiths, Trevor, Philip Hunt and Patrick O'Brien, "Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700-1800," JEH, vol. 52 (1992), pp. 881-906.

Horn, Jeff, "Avoiding Revolution: the French Path to Industrialization," Ch. 5 in Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, J. Horn, N. Rosenband, and M. Roe Smith, eds. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2011), pp. 87-106.

--- . The Path not Taken. French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006.

--- . Economic Development in Early Modern France. The Privilege of Liberty, 1650-1820. Cambridge: CUP, 2015. Especially Ch. 7 "Privilege, Innovation, and the State: Entrepreneurialism and the lessons of the old régime," pp. 204-42.

--- , " 'A Beautiful Madness': Privilege, the Machine Question and Industrial Development in Normandy in 1789," Past and Present, no. 217 (Nov. 2012), pp. 149-85.

Jacobs, Margaret. The First Knowledge Economy. Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850. Cambridge: CUP, 2014.

Khan, Zorina, "An Economic History of Patent Institutions" EH.net Encyclopaedia. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/khan.patents.

Landes, David. The Unbound Prometheus. Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge: CUP, 1969 or 2e/reprint 2003). Ch. 3 "Continental Emulation" pp. 124-192.

Macleod, Christine, "The European origins of British technological predominance," Ch. 5 in Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815, Leandro Prados de la Escosura, ed. (Cambridge: CUP, 2004), oo. 111-26.

Mokyr, Joel. The Gifts of Athena. Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton: PUP, 2002. Chs. 2-3, pp. 28-118.

--- . The Lever of Riches. Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford: OUP, 1990. Ch. 10, pp. 239-269; Chs. 5-6, pp. 81-148.

--- . The Enlightened Economy, Chs. 6-7: "The Origins of British Technological Leadership" and "Technological Change and the Industrial Revolution," pp. 99-144.

Moser, Petra, "How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth Century World Fairs," The American Economic Review, vol. 95 (2005), pp. 1214-1236.

Nye, John, "Firm Size and Economic Backwardness: A New Look at the French Industrialization Debate," JEH, vol. 47 (1987), pp. 649-61. Not discussed in lecture but relevant and interesting.

O'Brien, Patrick, Trevor Griffiths and Philip Hunt, "Technological Change During the First Industrial Revolution: the Paradigm Case of Cotton Textiles, 1688-1851" Ch. 9 in R. Fox (ed.), Technological Change (Routledge, 1998), pp. 155-176.

--- , "Political components of the industrial revolution: parliament and the English cotton textile industry, 1660-1774," EHR, vol. 44, no. 3 (Aug. 1991), pp. 394-423.

Sicsic, P., "Establishment Size and Economies of Scale in 19th-century France," EEH, vol. 31 (1994), pp. 453-78. Same topic as earlier Nye article.

Squicciarini, M. and N. Voigtlander, "Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of the Enlightenment," NBER Working Paper 20219 (2014).

Wrigley, E.A. Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.

Primary

Baines, E., History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, 1835, pp. 512-26.

Marshall, F., Population and Trade in France in 1861-62, chapters 7 and 8.

Great Exhibition, The Industry of Nations as Exemplified in the Great Exhibition of 1851, 1862, pp. 223-7.