EH.R: British Restrictions on Machinery Exports

----------------- EH.RES POSTING ----------------- On the subject of prohibitions on exports of British machinery, my reading on the textile machinery industry indicates that full liberalization occurred in 1843. See, for example, Christine MacLeod, "Strategies for Innovation," Economic History Review 45 (1992): 285-307, which states that "machinery exports were completely legalized in 1843" (303). She does not give the name of the act, but she does cite Kristine Bruland, British Technology and European Industrialization (1989), which shows the acceleration of machinery exports after 1843 (149). (They were not zero prior to that date, however, so there is something more to be explained here.) The textile machinery companies lobbied heavily for this breakthrough. Gavin Wright Department of Economics Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 ------------ FOOTER TO EH.RES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info EH.RES" to lists@eh.net. >