Duncan Weldon: "The one tweet version https://twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/status/1007681332137418759: 'Britain had unusually high wages compared to much of Europe (a legacy of more colonial trade) and easy access to coal. High wages and cheap energy made the introduction of labour saving technology profitable in Britain when it wouldn’t have been elsewhere..." https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/2162/allen-industrev-global.pdf
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