@techreport{Clark2010surprising,
abstract = {Occupations listed in wills reveal that as early as 1560 effectively only 60% of the English engaged in farming. Even by 1817, well into the Industrial Revolution, the equivalent primary share, once we count in food and raw material imports, was still 52%. By implication, incomes in pre-industrial England were close to those of 1800. Urbanization rates are not a good guide to pre-industrial income levels. Many rural workers were engaged in manufacturing, services and trade. The occupation shares also imply pre-industrial England was rich enough in 1560 to rank above the bottom fifth of countries in 2007.},
address = {Davis, Calif.},
author = {Gregory Clark and Joe Cummins and Brock Smith},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330},
language = {eng},
number = {10,14},
publisher = {Dep. of Economics, Univ. of California},
title = {The surprising wealth of pre-industrial England},
type = {Working Papers, University of California, Department of Economics},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58391},
year = {2010}
}
