Age Quote by Thomas Piketty

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

— Emo Philips

Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not…

— Richard Ebeling

“Conglomerations of factories gave rise to the new industrial cities. Steam engines were later applied to mobile uses – the railway and steamship ushered…

— Edward A. Hudson

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

“Without the changes in political institutions and political power similar to those that emerged in England after 1688, there was little chance for absolutist…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and…

— William McKinley

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

— James Howard Kunstler

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

— Edward Conard

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England’s economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom”

— Charles Dickens

“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.”

— Edward A. Hudson