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Industrial Revolution: Economies
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In contrast other historians have challenged the very concept of an industrial revolution. For example, econometric techniques applied by N. F. R. Crafts and others indicate slow rates of change in British economic life. Innovations in technology and in organization occurred piecemeal in different parts of the economy, suggesting that the image of revolution seems inappropriate.
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The industrial revolution is a challenge in another respect as well: it's not really national. To be sure, it is possible to treat national cases of industrialization, (though within most nations the process displayed marked regional differentiation), but the causes of industrialization were never strictly national. The process almost always pushed economies into further international involvements, in search of resources and markets; only the Soviet Union provides a partial and temporary exception to this generalization. Figuring out, in a nation-based history course, how to build in the international component may compel another set of adjustments.
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The paper explains the development of industrial revolution during the Enlightenment, the way in which political and social thought was changing. The author includes thinkers such as economist Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus who presented the impact of population changes. The author believes that these different influences all came together to create the circumstances required for the industrial revolution to take place.
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