(Ebook) From Old Regime to Industrial State: A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I by Richard H. Tilly, Michael Kopsidis ISBN 9780226725437, 022672543X

(Ebook) From Old Regime to Industrial State: A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I by Richard H. Tilly, Michael Kopsidis ISBN 9780226725437, 022672543X

The main theme of this history of German industrialization is the “transition to modern economic growth.” Its analytical framework thus necessarily consists of the following propositions:
(1) the transition to modern economic growth (MEG) was a very long- run, drawn- out process;
(2) that transition depended on industrialization of the economy;
(3) Germany’s industrialization had a highly differentiated regional pattern;
(4) industrialization and demographic change were closely linked, forcing some consideration of the transition from Malthusian to “post- Malthusian” conditions;
(5) industrialization depended on institutions (understood as rules constraining both governmental and private individual behavior) and especially on institutional change;
(6) industrialization depended on the development of human capital and technological change. These propositions deserve some elaboration here— a kind of guide to the book’s structure.