Practice question · Multiple choice
Allen explains British industrialisation by factor prices and Mokyr by a culture of useful knowledge. Why are these rival explanations rather than complementary ones?
Hints
- Ask what each says would have happened had the other factor been absent.
- Both cannot be the binding constraint.
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D. Because they disagree about what was scarce.
Why
They differ on what was binding. If wages were the trigger, the same culture without high wages industrialises nowhere, which is a testable disagreement, not a division of labour.
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