This paper surveys the experience of economic growth in the 20th century with a focus on
technological change at the frontier together with issues related to success and failure in …

A major question in Economic Geography relates to the scale and nature of transport
infrastructure's contribution to the broader economy. While Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is …

The contribution of steam to British economic growth in the nineteenth century is estimated
using growth accounting methods similar to those recently employed to examine the role of …

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since
industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and …

The British Industrial Revolution is reviewed in the light of recent developments in modeling
economic growth. It is argued that” endogenous innovation” models may be useful in this …

How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American
economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by …

Railways transformed inland transport during the nineteenth century. In this paper, we study
how railways led to local population change and divergence in England and Wales as it …

Abstract 'Social savings' is a cliometric concept to measure the benefit to society of
technological improvements. The terms are defined, and the relationship between social …

The issue of why productivity growth during the British industrial revolution was slow despite
the arrival of famous inventions is revisited using a growth accounting methodology based …

Counter This book relates the history of Italian railways with special regard to their relation
with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until …