Download This PaperPreconditions for English Modernization
17 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2009
Date Written: March, 10 2009
Abstract
Why did the Industrial Revolution start in England? An economic historian can hardly find any indicators during the Middle Ages that the Albion had potential to modernize before France or Spain. Yet, during the thirteenth century, an irreversible process began on the British Isles that would create all the necessary preconditions for their take-off half a millennium later. This paper explores the evolution of the unique English social and political institutional structures responsible for the rise of western democracy and free market capitalism.
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Tokarev, Alexandar D., Preconditions for English Modernization (March, 10 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1356770 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1356770
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