Revolución industrial, crecimiento económico y modernidad
En un paper reciente que resume lo que ha quedado más o menos en limpio sobre la revolución industrial (de parte de historiadores) Hans-Joachim Voth dice que: ‘A radical discontinuity separates thousands of years of by and large stagnant living standards from the industrial era. Increasingly in the last few years, models have attempted to capture these long-run dynamics to try to explain how the world changed from a state where growth was fleeting and limited to one where it has become permanent and decisive’ (Voth, 2003, Living Standards during the Industrial Revolution: An Economist’s Guide, AEA Papers and Proceedings, … Siga leyendo