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Was The Industrial Revolution in England Inevitable?

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a rapid economic growth took place in England, what is now called ¡®the industrial revolution¡¯. It gave rise to a sustained increase in the rate of the growth of the output of goods and services. The population also increased in a rather high rate. And a lot of men engaged in agriculture were converted into workers. ¡®This conversion, which has been described generally as industrialization, has vastly increased the resources available to mankind and has allowed (perhaps caused) a population explosion¡¯ (R.M.Hartwell). England was brought into a world of much faster economic growth. And the whole world was brought from a world of agriculture into a world of industry.

For its obvious importance, either historians or economists made great efforts to explain why the industrial revolution occurred. It was not an easy task to take. Many factors related to growth interacted. There was not an explicit model of growth to expl...

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