This paper assesses claims that, prior to the 19th century, around 90% of the human
population lived in extreme poverty (defined as the inability to access essential goods), and …

Este es un nuevo relato definitivo de la evolución económica de Gran Bretaña desde un
remanso de Europa en 1270 hasta el centro de la economía global en 1870. Un equipo de …

The organisation of business transactions in the preindustrial period, once a central concern
in scholarly debates about the rise of capitalism, currently plays only a marginal role in the …

Britain's labour force industrialised early. The industrial and service sectors already
accounted for 40% of the labour force in 1381, and a substantial further shift of labour out of …

Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. We present the first
time series of male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800, using a large …

Carefully constructed but fallible historical estimates of GDP and agricultural output inform
our understanding of the preindustrial origins of economic growth. Here we review four …

This dissertation builds on existing work by members of the 'Occupational Structure of Britain
1379-1911'project, led by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and EA Wrigley. It addresses three central …

The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated overview of the literature devoted to
identifying the causes of the British industrial revolution. Why did the industrial revolution, a …

Estimates of English income in Broadberry et al.'s British economic growth, 1270–1870 are
founded upon a fourfold growth of farm output, and output per farm worker, over this interval …

We build a unified model of growth and internal migration and identify its deep parameters
using an original set of Swedish data. Our structural estimation and counterfactual …