What can we learn from a race with one runner? A comment on Foreman-Peck and Zhou, ‘Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England’
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Authors
Edwards, J
Ogilvie, S
Publication Date
2019Journal Title
Economic History Review
ISSN
0013-0117
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
72
Issue
4
Pages
1439-1446
Type
Article
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Edwards, J., & Ogilvie, S. (2019). What can we learn from a race with one runner? A comment on Foreman-Peck and Zhou, ‘Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England’. Economic History Review, 72 (4), 1439-1446. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12785
Abstract
Foreman-Peck and Zhou’s claim that late marriage was a major contributor to the Industrial Revolution in England cannot be sustained. They consider neither other influences on English industrialisation nor other European economies where marriage age was high throughout the early modern period but industrialisation came much later. It is not possible to argue that late marriage age was a major contributor to English industrialisation without analysing other possible contributing factors. Any consideration of this question must assess marriage age alongside other causes of industrialisation and explain why other European economies with higher marriage age industrialised much later than England.
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