2010/09 LEM Working Paper Series


The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal

Ugo Gragnolati, Daniele Moschella, Emanuele Pugliese
  Keywords
 
Industrial Revolution, choice of technique, spinning jenny


  JEL Classifications
 
N00, N01, N70


  Abstract
 
Was the spinning jenny profitable only in England? No. The present work finds that the jenny was profitable also in France. Such result contrasts recent findings on the topic by revising basic computations on the profitability of the spinning jenny.


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