The Journal of Economic History

Table of Contents - 1972 - Volume 32, Issue 02  

Articles

Industrial Efficiency and Biased Technical Change in American and British Manufacturing: The Case of Textiles in the Nineteenth Century

Ephraim Ashera1

a1 Florida State University

The major purpose of this article is to measure factor-saving biases in technical change within the American and British textile sectors during the nineteenth century. This empirical attempt will be made within the context of the historical debate concerning the causes for the superiority of American industrial efficiency as compared with the British.