Gran Bretaña. El Desarrollo Sostenido

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1.- Gran Bretaña. El desarrollo sostenido (ss.

XVIII-XIX)
El punto de inflexión de la economía mundial.
Crecimiento sostenido
Economía y demografía
Estacamiento preindustrial
El predominio económico de la economía preindustrial
WHEAT MARKET IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL ECONOMY
“Good” Crop
Q1

Q2
p1

p2

Demand

q1 q2 Quantity. Wheat Output


WHEAT MARKET IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL ECONOMY
“Bad” Crop
Q2

Q1
p2

p1

Demand

q2 q1 Quantity. Wheat Output


El final de las hambrunas
El gran éxito de la Revolución Industrial
II Rev. Ind.
Paradigma de la Revolución Industrial I Rev. Ind.
Significance Industrial Revolution
The traditional view
Technological
4.- ? Rayway breakthrough
- Revolutionary
- Industrial 3.- ? Coke-iron

2.- ? Steam engine

1.- ? Spinnig of cotton

Industry

The current view


Significance Industrial Revolution
Economic growth

The current view

• Interaction of causes.

• Spiral-shaped change

• Growth-boosted dialectic
between causes and
consequences

• English idiosyncrasy.

• UK: where interactions were most fluid and sustained over time.

• The key: facilitate interaction between sectors and between production


and demand.
Interpretación de la interacción de causas
Paradigma tecnológico
Mokyr thesis: inventiveness is not synonymous with economic development

The inventiveness-economy dialectic Time

Inventing as a groundbreaking technological feature

Causes ?
Being able to put it into practice time lags between an
invention and its
aplication

Buildi up to post-application economic efficiency

Spilling over to other sector and activities


Mokyr thesis: inventiveness is not synonymous with economic development

The inventiveness-economy dialectic Time

Inventing as a groundbreaking technological feature

Causes ?
Being able to put it into practice time lags between an
invention and its
aplication

Buildi up to post-application economic efficiency

Spilling over to other sector and activities


El reto: modificar el papel de la agricultura
La importancia del mercado interior: el consumo

D. Bogart (2004) "Turnpike Trusts and the


Transportation Revolution in Eighteenth Century
England".
“Paying the last turnpike toll”. 1895
Incentivo de la
construcción de canales:
Consumo urbano y
mercado interior
El objetivo: sostener a más población durante más tiempo de vida y con mejores condiciones

UK life expectancy
Mayores oportunidades laborales modifica las pautas demográficas
Salarios e inversión
Real wages 1400-1860
Más población y más consumo. La dependencia del mercado
Consumo del Estado
El reto de la demanda y la moda.
La solución: puting out
PUTTING OUT SYSTEM

Merchant
(urban)

Raw Material
Marke Country family

t Credit I stage

Transport

Urban guilds or
Peasant Family
urban workers
II stage
Final stage
Water frame, R. Arkwrights, 1769
El gran logro del ferrocarril
Ocio e inversión
El gran éxito empresarial y
de inversión
Glass and Iron Vaulted
Roof of the Great
Exhibition Hall
Designed by Sir Joseph
Paxton
1851
Machinery Section at the Great Exhibition of 1851..

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