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From Domestic Manufacture to Industrial Revolution: Long-Run Growth and Agricultural Development

The paper investigates the historical process of industrialisation. The allocation of labour between food and non-food activities and the pattern of consumption of domestic versus industrial manufacture are determined endogenously, depending on terms of trade between agricultural and industrial goods.