Britain Quote by Thomas Sowell

“virtually the entire improvement in output per worker in Britain in the first century of the Industrial Revolution was due to improvement in productivity.…

— Edward A. Hudson

“There had previously, such as in Rome and the Netherlands, been growth over one or two centuries but this earlier growth was based on…

— Edward A. Hudson

“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

“In contrast to what many people in Britain and the United States believe, the true figures on growth (as best one can judge from…

— Thomas Piketty

“Whereas in other countries expansion stopped when an initial advantage had been fully exploited, England moved through a succession of new products and new…

— Edward A. Hudson

“There could be some economic growth without innovation, relying on existing technology, but it was growth without creative destruction. And it did not last.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large…

— David Christian

I'm not saying "job done" but I am actually pretty confident that Britain can be one of the biggest winners from these big global…

— George Osborne

“As with Britain, growth in the United States started with agriculture. Then, steel, railroads, automobiles, electricity, consumer appliances, telecommunications and chemicals were among the…

— Edward A. Hudson

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

— Lucy Powell

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

— Andrew Mitchell

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped the economic…

— Ash Sarkar