1st Edition

Technological Diffusion and Industrialisation Before 1914

224 Pages

by Routledge

224 Pages

by Routledge

224 Pages

by Routledge

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Published in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology. The book considers the preconditions necessary for a country to adopt effectively modern industrial technology in the nineteenth century and the mechanisms by which this technology spread from one country to another. A global view is adopted and thus the book supplements others which are... Read more

Part 1: The Process of Industrialisation and the Diffusion of Technology

1. Technological Diffusion and Nineteenth-Century Industrialisation

2. The Spread of Industrialisation Before 1914

Part 2: The Spread of Modern Industrial Technology: Preconditions

3. The Spread of Modern Agricultural Techniques Before 1914

4. The Size of the Market

5. Saving and the Rate of Capital Accumulation

6. The Financial Environment

7. Industrialisation and Labour Supply

8. Resource Endowment and Industrialisation

9. The Technical Factor in Industrialisation

10. Industrialisation and Entrepreneurship