| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP14138 |
| DP14138 The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization | |
| Karine van der Beek; Joel Mokyr; Assaf Sarid | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-11-20 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and industrialization, in the context of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. We demonstrate that millwrights, eighteenth century specialists in advanced carpentry and hydraulic machinery, evolved following the diffusion of watermills, and are recorded in the Domesday Book survey (1086). Our results suggest that their availability was a major factor in determining the persistence of English industrial location from the thirteenth century to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, in locations that adopted watermills in the Middle Ages, we show that the availability of physical infrastructure and of highly skilled wrights jointly determined the location of English industry from the end of the thirteenth century to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | Human capital Industrialization Economic growth Mechanical skills Watermill England |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14138-2 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543027 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karine van der Beek,Joel Mokyr,Assaf Sarid. DP14138 The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization. 2019. |
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