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Barriers to Growth

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Economic History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44274-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-44273-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 5, 2020

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Barriers and Push Forces

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 3 –12

[This book considers ‘negative gains’ from the centuries-long dissolution of impediments to economic growth in English history. The approach is contrary to the almost universal search for the ultimate propulsive force. The dissolution of barriers from soon after the Norman Conquest is portrayed...
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Military and Ecclesiastical Building

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 13 –18

[Construction booms followed the Norman Conquest of 1066; one involved building castles, the other cathedrals and parish churches. By 1200 there were 8500 to 9000 parish churches, mostly of stone. Even allowing for the secular use of churches, funds were diverted from productive sectors. The real...
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Dissolution of the Monasteries

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 19 –29

[Recent work urges that the Dissolution passed monastic lands into gentry hands and it was their enterprise that transformed the economy. In reality other changes diluted the impact and ancient practices survived for centuries. Moreover, many areas full of gentry estates actually...
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Civil War

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 31 –40

[Francis Fukuyama argued that a fifty-year cycle of civil war lasted from the Norman Conquest until 1688. Reasons are given for questioning this neat cycle. His explanation of the end of civil warfare through emerging national identity, a centralised state and respect for the law is also doubted....
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Communal Farming and Underused Land

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 41 –44

[Resistance to innovation within communal farming impeded change. The aim of forceful individuals was to amend the system by inserting ‘new’ fodder crops or extra pasture. In many places they were only partly successful. Attention is drawn to this poorly recorded process, which involved...
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Tithes

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 45 –52

[Tithes were originally a free-will offering to the clergy but became a resented imposition charged at one-tenth of farm produce. The interests of the recipients (clergy and tithe owners who had bought the rights) were opposed to those of agricultural producers. After 1750 the introduction of new...
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Archaic Institutions

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 53 –66

[Major examples of slowly changing institutions were communal farming and urban guilds, both of which meant economic underperformance. They represented a ‘survival of the mediocre’ and worked against maximising output. Their underlying goals were income equality and in the case of agriculture...
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Obstructive Infrastructure

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 67 –78

[Existing physical structures sometimes obstructed development. The stock of roads and river bridges seemed adequate however until the pressure of late eighteenth-century traffic. Although in some cases conflicting interests slowed the response, 80 per cent of medieval bridges were replaced...
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Maladministration

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 79 –84

[Before the industrial era administration was limited and more corrupt than later. Protectionism and censorship reigned. Reforms in the early 1830s show the pre-existing impediments in relief. Keys were the Reform Act of 1832 and the Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846–1849, although other...
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Disease

Jones, Eric L.

Pages: 87 –92

[Pre-industrial centuries were punctuated by epidemics and serious disease outbreaks, including plague, typhus, smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis. The plague had a ‘neutron bomb’ effect, destroying labour but not capital, without however producing the Eastern European result of re-enserfing...

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