Resolving the Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Response to Professor Ritschl
回应Ritschl对作者先前关于德英制造业劳动生产率比较的批评，用历史数据重新计算后得出1907年德国生产率比英国高约8.4%，介于作者先前估计的5%和Ritschl声称的20-28%之间。
In a recent article, Ritschl (2008) criticized findings of Broadberry and Burhop (2007) regarding the comparative level of manufacturing labour productivity in Germany compared to Britain between 1895 and 1938. In this paper, we re-evaluate Ritschl's claims and show that our earlier results are broadly consistent with the historical data. Our new results show that labour productivity in German manufacturing in 1907 was about 8.4 percent higher than in Britain. This is slightly different from our earlier finding of a German productivity advantage of only 5 percent, but substantially below Ritschl's claim of a 20-28 percent German productivity lead.