A Tall Story? The Standard of Living Debate

Roderick Floud continues our special report on the industrial revolution and is seeing the impact of industrialization on the UK.

Economic history is related to past economic management. The theme is often the production and distribution of systems and handicrafts, such as factories and banks, ships, machinery, fiscal policy, tariffs and so on. However, industrial and commercial activities are a means to terminate consumption, and economic growth is only a means to finish expanding consumption. Therefore it is not surprising that "the longest controversy in British economic history" has focused on the impact of industrialization and economic growth on the British after 1750.

One of the reasons why this controversy should last so long - it has been in existence since the 1940 's is difficult to assess the overall impact of industrialization on the population. People can separately study the change in wage rates, changes in food expenses, the impact of rents and clothing, the impact of disease change, the impact of new work processes, or urbanization environmental costs and factory upgrades. However, it is extremely difficult to compare changes and collect enough information on change to influence either population. Indeed, when talking about changes in living standards of the population, people need to take as many summary measures as possible.

One such summary scale just recently used by historians is the height of a person. Professor James Tanner says, as a major expert in human biology:

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