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Economic development with unlimited supplies of energy: Causes and consequences of industrial revolutions.

机译：能源无限供应的经济发展：工业革命的成因和后果。

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This dissertation contains two related chapters and an introduction. The common themes they explore are the unresolved questions surrounding the English Industrial Revolution (EIR). The questions include what happened, why did "it" happen first in England, why did it happen then in history, and what are the consequences? The story is a history of economic growth from a specific point of view---energy consumption for an economy; the framework can be used to illuminate our economic present and possible economic futures.;Economic and other historians have been grappling with these puzzles for a long time; their answers fall along a continuum from New Institutional Economics (some mix of institutions and perhaps culture) to almost pure chance. Institutional explanations are at least a plurality; this work makes the case that these explanations are not sufficient in the sense of not being primarily causal or sufficiently explanatory in the EIR's history. The work further explores that at least the major institutional changes are endogenous to the revolutionary economic changes.;The major claim is that the EIR was primarily an energy consumption revolution, the English having had the correct economic incentives and historical path to learn how to use steam power to replace muscle power. The contribution is the attempt to apply economic principles to the data and history and measure their explanatory power.;The work identifies two energy revolutions explaining the EIR. The first, converting from wood to coal for industrial and domestic heating purposes, probably happened several times in history at other places in addition to England. In addition to this first--phase energy revolution in England, Chapter 2 documents an added noteworthy instance, that of the iron and steel industry in Sung China (960--1126 CE). The second revolution, converting from muscle power to steam power, happened first in England before engulfing the world.;To support the claims the work employs several methods including empirical analyses, microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, and descriptive narratives from many sources. The general method is to apply basic economic principles to the available data and narratives.;Among the insights, the work proposes a hypothesis of industrial revolutions that can be tested beyond the cases included in this work. This work uses basic microeconomics, macroeconomics, and relevant empirical data (as the data permit) to test the cases of China and England.;To support the revolutionary growth on the supply side, the work makes the case that there was sufficient consumer demand to drive the efforts of the entrepreneurs and inventors.;Once the theoretical framework for industrial revolutions is explored, then the work turns to the question of how did these momentous economic events aect the growth of industrial capitalism since it is one of the more important institutions that is associated with the EIR.
机译：本文共分为两章和引言。他们探讨的共同主题是围绕英国工业革命（EIR）尚未解决的问题。问题包括发生了什么，为什么“它”首先在英格兰发生，为什么它在历史上发生了，后果是什么？从特定的角度来看，这个故事是一段经济增长的历史。该框架可用于阐明我们的经济现状和可能的经济未来。经济学家和其他历史学家长期以来一直在努力解决这些难题。他们的答案是从新制度经济学（制度的某种混合，也许还有文化）到几乎纯粹的机会的一个连续统一体。制度上的解释至少是多种的。从EIR历史上主要不是因果关系或充分解释的意义上讲，这项工作使得这些解释是不够的。著作进一步探讨了至少重大的制度变化是革命性经济变化的内在因素。主要主张是，EIR主要是一次能源消耗革命，英国人具有正确的经济动机和学习使用方法的历史道路。蒸汽动力代替肌肉力量。所做的贡献是尝试将经济原理应用于数据和历史并衡量其解释力。这项工作确定了两次解释EIR的能源革命。首先，为了工业和家庭取暖目的，从木材转换为煤炭，可能在历史上发生了几次，除了英格兰。除了英国的第一阶段能源革命外，第2章还介绍了另一个值得注意的例子，即中国宋朝（960--1126 CE）的钢铁工业。从肌力转换为蒸汽力的第二次革命首先发生在英国，然后席卷全球。为证明这一主张，该工作采用了多种方法，包括实证分析，微观经济学理论，宏观经济学理论以及来自许多来源的描述性叙述。一般的方法是将基本的经济原理应用到可用的数据和叙述中。在这些见解中，这项工作提出了一种工业革命的假说，该假说可以在本工作所包含的案例之外进行检验。这项工作使用基本的微观经济学，宏观经济学和相关的经验数据（在数据允许的情况下）来检验中国和英国的情况。为了支持供给方面的革命性增长，该工作提出了足够的消费者需求驱动了企业家和发明家的努力。；一旦探索了工业革命的理论框架，那么工作就转向这些重大的经济事件如何影响工业资本主义的增长的问题，因为它是最重要的机构之一。与EIR相关联。

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  • 作者

    Bannister, Stephen Charles.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Utah.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Utah.;
  • 学科 Economic history.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2015
  • 页码 110 p.
  • 总页数 110
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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