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EconomicsTechnical changeFactor sharesLabour economicsCapital accumulationWage shareProfit (economics)Income distributionInequalityRate of profitCapital (architecture)WageTechnological changeCapital deepeningDistribution (mathematics)Real wagesProductivityMacroeconomicsProduction (economics)Capital formationFinancial capitalEfficiency wageNeoclassical economics
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Robert C. Allen
(2009).
Engels’ pause: Technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the british industrial revolution.
Explorations in Economic History
, 46
(4)
, 418-435.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2009.04.004
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- 10.1016/j.eeh.2009.04.004