Puncturing the Malthus Delusion
Structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800
Dr David Chilosi
Talk by Dr David Chilosi (Economic History Department, London School of Economics).
Accounts of structural change in the pre-modern British economy vary substantially.
We present the first time series of male labour sectoral shares before 1800, using a large sample of probate and apprenticeship data to produce national and county-level estimates.
England experienced a rapid decline in the agricultural share between the early seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, associated with rising agricultural and especially industrial productivity; Wales saw only limited changes.
Our results provide further evidence of early structural change, highlighting the significance of the midseventeenth century as a turning point in English economic development.
Alle are welcome.
Further arrangements, autumn 2016
All are being held from 12:00 to 13:30 at The Saxo Institute on KUA2, 12.4.07
11 October 2016
Weight and Value in Prehistory By Lorenz Rahmstorf (Saxo Institute)
17-18 November 2016
Workshop ‘The Costs of Information’ Organised by Angela L. Huang (Saxo Insttute)
13 December 2016
Post-1945 wage levels in Scandinavia By Jan Pedersen (Saxo Intitute)