Sources

Question 1

Industrial Revolution

Answer 1

1. Ashton (1955): definition of IR
2. Allen (2009): demand-side of why first IR was british
3. Mokyr (2002): supply-side
4. Allen (2011): first IR
5. Mokyr (1998): second IR

Question 2

Demography

Answer 2

1. Malthus (1798): Essay on The Principle of Population
2. Shermer (2016): counter-argues Malthus
3. Thompson (1929): Demographic Transition Model
4. Clark and Alter (2010): DTM in Europe IR context
5. Our World Data (2013): 5 countries that went through stage 1-4 of DTM

Question 3

Technology

Answer 3

1. Kuznets (1967): total factor productivity (technical change/progress)
2. Schumpeter (1942): creative destruction
3. Solow (1956): solow growth model
4. Romer (1986): endogenous growth model
5. Crafts (2004): steam as GPT
6. Bonciu (2017): assembly line as GPT

Question 4

Market Integration

Answer 4

1. De Vries (2009): soft & hard definition of globalisation
2. Federico and Tena-Junguito (2016): growth of global exports
3. Abramitzky et al. (2014): New World mass migration
4. O’Rourke (1997): European grain invasion

Question 5

Catch-up growth

Answer 5

1. Abramovitz (1986): catch-up growth
2. Lewis (1954): dual-sector model
3. Swan (1956): neoclassical growth model
4. Habakkuk (1962): economical prerequisites for technological transfer
5. Allen (2009): factor price theory
6. Edgerton (2006): old tech in economy
7. Gerschenkron (1962): pre-requisites for growth
8. Solow (1956) solow growth model
9. 1998 literature: conventional factors on why USA could overtake Britain
10. Broadberry (1998): actual factors on why USA overtook Britain
11. Wright (1990): non-reproducible natural resources as US’ primary export
12. Broadberry and O’Rourke (2010): relationship btwn GDP per capita and sectoral shift

Question 6

World War I

Answer 6

1. Broadberry and Harrison (2008): economics of two world wars
2. Chickering and Forster (2000): Schlieffen Plan of Germany
3. Turner (1996): Britain and France debts
4. Treaty of Versailles (1919)
5. Heyde (1998): reparation effects on Germany

Question 7

Women

Answer 7

1. Goldin (2006): FLFPR in OECD countries
2. The World Bank (2020): U-shaped relationship between GDP per capita and FLFP
3. Ferrant et al. (2014): how unpaid care work affects FLFPR
4. The World Bank (2022): economic limitations faced by women
5. Olivetti (2013): maternal health in US
6. ILO (2002: fertility rates effect on women’s time
7. Alesina et al. (2013): ploughing societies
8. Ortiz-Ospina et al. (2018): household tech
9. Goldin and Katz (2009): birth control pill

Question 8

Soviet

Answer 8

1. Allen (2001): rise and fall of soviet economy
2. Millar (1970: collectivise agriculture
3. Davis (1992): GDP allocation for defence budget