Simulating the Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution
用计算一般均衡模型检验英国工业革命期间的技术变化、贸易和经济结构，反驳了生产率增长仅集中在少数部门的观点，并说明贸易数据如何丰富了对工业革命的理解。
This study examines technical change, trade, economic structure, and growth during the British Industrial Revolution by means of computational general equilibrium (CGE) modeling. It rejects Peter Temin's contention that our “new view” of sectorally concentrated productivity growth is inconsistent with industrial export data. A CGE trade model with diminishing returns in agriculture and realistic assumptions about consumer demand shows that while technical change in cottons and iron were major spurs to exportation of those specific goods, the need for food imports also stimulated exports generally. Incorporating trade data thus enriches our “new view.”