Should-Read: Anton Howes: Inducing Ideas for Industrialisation: “Perhaps the most popular modern theory of the causes of the Industrial Revolution is Robert C. Allen’s “Induced Innovation”… …as outlined in his 2009 book The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. The argument is straightforward, but compelling: Britain had uniquely high wages from about as far back … Continue reading Should-Read: Anton Howes: Inducing Ideas for Industrialisation