Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
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2 This argument has been attributed to Charles Calomiris (Northwestern), and it emerged at a Harvard brown bag lunch involving Barry Eichengreen, Jack Goldstone, Peter Lindert, Peter Temin, and myself. I have not asked Calomiris whether he wants to take credit for the argument or, indeed, whether I have gotten it right, but it is his for the taking.Google Scholar
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4 The following paragraph draws on my Debating thBritish Industrial Revolution,” Explorations in Economic History (forthcoming).Google Scholar
5 The role of imperfect capital and labor markets on accumulation is stressed in my paper “The Economic Impact of Factor Market Failure on the British Economy in the 1830s,”presented to the American Economic Association Meeting (New Orleans, 12 1986).Google Scholar