1. For a discussion of the problems of dating periods, see Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (1954), pp. 379–380.
2. See T. S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948); ‘Some Statistics of the Industrial Revolution in Britain’, Manchester School, May 1948; ‘The Standard of Life of Workers in England, 1790–1830’, Tasks of Economic History, supplement ix (1949);
3. Arthur D. Gayer, W. W. Rostow, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, The Growth and Fluctuation of the British Economy, 1790–1850 (1953), 2 vols., pp. 657–658. Also see I. A. Hayek (ed.), Capitalism and the Historians (1954).
4. See David Ricardo, Preface to Principles, Piero Sraffa, ed., The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (1951), vol. i, p. xlviii.
5. See Lionel Robbins, The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy (1953).