英国工业革命初期资本的需求

The Demand for Capital at the Early Stage of British Industrial Revolution

资本作为经济增长的基本要素之一，历来受到研究工业革命的学者的重视，有些学者认为工业革命的实质是投资率的成倍增加，例如罗斯托认为经济“起飞”是生产投资率从５％以下上升到１０％以上的过程①；刘易斯认为所有现在的发达国家在过去某个时期都经历过经济加速增长的...

Abstract Capital is the key to the study of British Industrial Revolution,which evoked much controversy.This thesis focuses o n the demand of the industrial capital in the early stage of British Industrial Revolution.As a general rule,with economic growth,the inputs of capital increase,but the demand for industrial capital was not large in the early stage of British Industrial Revolution,which can be confirmed from three dimensions that include the characteristic of industrial sectors,the allocation of capital in industrial and the change of production organization and management.With the expansion of production scale and increasing of mechanization,it was after 1830s when enough capital could be supplied that the Industrial Revolution witnessed capital demand raise.