In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the relationship between economic and demographic growth. We use simple models of endogenous growth, featuring human capital investment at the individual level in conjunction with either of two models of fertility choice, the B&B dynastic motive, and the B&J lateage-security motive. We find that exogenous improvements in agespecific survival probabilitie...

In the 1840s the young Friedrich Engels reported from the industrial areas of England: "It is not surprising that the workers should drink heavily. Sheriff Alison asserts that 30,000 workers are drunk in Glasgow every Saturday night. And this is certainly no underestimate. . . . It is particularly on Saturday evenings that intoxication can be seen in all its bestiality, for it is then that the ...

Organizational factors—lifecycles, staff specialization and retraining, and participants’ incentives—are too rarely considered in data integration research. We discuss how one can repackage the familiar tasks and research problems, to better fit organizations’ needs. The goal is to obtain data integration tools that support an industrial process of data integration.

Industries such as manufacturing, mining, and transportation have been experiencing mechanization and automation for well over 100 years. Agriculture, in contrast, has lagged behind and only in the last 30 years have these processes been adopted. Long considered a way of life rather than an industry, farming is now becoming as highly industrialized as the traditionally organized businesses. Pes...

The future of manufacturing is here, compliments of intelligent machines that enable people, processes, products and infrastructure to seamlessly coordinate, creating finished goods that are more time-and cost-efficient to produce — and meet, if not exceed, customer expectations.

Recent thinking about the Industrial Revolution has been dominated by the idea that the driving force in events in Britain after 1760 was an unprecedented set of technological advances, spread across a wide range of sectors in the economy. Cotton textiles, iron and steel production, mechanical power sources, shipping, railways and agriculture all saw significant advances and together these more...