Theories of Technological Progress and the British Textile Industry from Kay to Cartwright

• Autores: P. A. Hunt, T. Griffiths, Patrick Karl O'Brien
• Localización: Revista de Historia Económica = Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, ISSN 0212-6109, Año nº 14, Nº 3, 1996, págs. 533-555
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/s0212610900005814
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  • español

    La industria textil británica continúa en el centro del debate sobre la revolución industriaL Las innovaciones técnicas en el período produjeron una aceleración extraordinaria del crecimiento del output y una considerable reducción de los precios de los tejidos. En este trabajo presentamos un estudio de la comunidad de los inventores responsables de la transformación tecnológica, lo que nos permite alcanzar una serie de conclusiones nuevas sobre el ritmo y dirección de la actividad innovadora durante la revolución industrial.

  • English

    The cotton textile industry remains central to all accounts of the first industrial revolution. Innovations in this period precipitated an extraordinary acceleration in the growth of output and a steep decline in the cost of producing all varieties of cloth. In this paper we outline an explanation through an analysis of the community of inventors responsible for the technological transformation, which enables us to offer some generalizations of the pace and pattern of the inventive activity in this period.

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