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Robert Allen’s spinning jenny is still broken.

Posted on 29 May, 2019 by John Styles

In ‘Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider’, published in Economic History Review online early view in May 2019, Robert Allen once again defends his High Wage Economy explanation of the industrial revolution in textiles. Specifically, … Continue reading →

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