Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10096053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Clark (0000-0001-6972-4478, University of California, Davis, corresponding author), Joseph Cummins (University of California, Davis, corresponding author), Brock Smith (0000-0003-1067-7026, University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 364-392 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002205071200006x |
| OpenAlex | W2007401149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
Gregory Clark argued in A Farewell to Alms that preindustrial societies, including England, were Malthusian. Day wages show incomes were trendless: as high in Europe in the medieval era as in 1800, even in England. The opposed view is that England and the Netherlands grew substantially from 1200 to 1800. Early day wages overestimate living standards. Here we show that preindustrial farm employment shares can be estimated from probate occupation reports. These imply only 60 percent employed in farming in England in 1560–1579 and 1653–1660, consistent with the high incomes indicated by wages. Day wages do measure preindustrial living standards
Agriculture · Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Market economy · New england · Political science · Probate · Real wages · Standard of living · Wage · Wages and salaries · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
Malthusian checks in pre-industrial Sweden and Finland
Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
Capitalism and extreme poverty
And the Malthus delusion
The business history of the preindustrial world
Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800
Numerare Est Errare
Growth or stagnation? Farming in England, 1200-1800
The Industrious Revolution
English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837
A Farewell to Alms
European Urbanization, 1500-1800
Contours of the World Economy, 1–2030AD
The population of early tudor England
English Occupations, 1670–1811
The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War
GDP per capita or real wages? Making sense of conflicting views on pre-industrial Europe
And the Malthus delusion
Pre-Industrial Economic Growth
Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914
The 'revolt of the early modernists' and the 'first modern economy
A British food puzzle, 1770-18501
Gregory King's Estimate of the Population of England and Wales, 1965
Gregory king's estimate of the population of England and Wales, 1695
The long march of history
Urban Growth and Agricultural Change
English county populations in the later eighteenth century1
English and Scottish overseas trade, 1300-16001
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |