Study looks at why Britian escaped economic stagnation at the turn of the 18th century and provides insight into the labour and technological challenges we face today.

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(Forthcoming Article) - We establish a link between labor scarcity and the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. During the Napoleonic Wars, more than 10 percent of the male population served in the armed forces. Where recruitment was heavy, more machines economizing on labor were adopted. Naval recruitment, instrumented by warships’ coastal access, provides exogenous variation in labor scarcity and suggests that the link between labor shortages and adoption is causal. Where mechanical skills were abundant, the impact of labor scarcity on adoption appears to be larger.

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#SynBYSS welcomes Valeria Caprettini, Nature Biomedical Engineering editor at Nature Portfolio, Prof. Jean-Christophe Leroux at ETH Zürich, Prof. Omid Veiseh at Rice University & Prof. Lola Eniola-Ade...

What are the origins of modern economic growth? How has structural transformation unfolded around the world? How do societies change during the process of structural transformation? In this lecture, Bruno Caprettini and Luis Felipe Sáenz discuss structural transformation, providing a brief history, key facts, and main theories. Read the full VoxDevLit here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/industrial-development #economics #economicgrowth #economicdevelopment

A series of four lectures summarising what we've learned from economic research about industrial development. - Lecture 1: Structural Transformation - Lecture 2: Export-led growth and industrial polic...

How did society change during the industrial revolution? Are there lessons we can learn for the AI revolution?

How did society change during the industrial revolution? Are there lessons we can learn for the age of AI? In this episode of Ideas in Development, Deena Mousa and Oliver Hanney are talking to Bruno Caprettini about one of the most common historical analogies people make when talking about AI: the industrial revolution. We discuss how society, and the economy, changed in real time during this historical period of unprecedented technological change. What did technological change actually look like when it first unfolded? How long did it take for living standards to rise? And what kinds of disruption and backlash showed up along the way? We also discuss the ways in which AI is similar, and different, to this period of history. #economics #history #industrialrevolution #riots

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Der Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2025 würdigt Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion und Peter Howitt für ihre Arbeit zu Innovation und technologischem Fortschritt. In diesem Beitrag erläutert HSG-As...

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