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Habakkuk thesis

Habakkuk thesis proper noun: the theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of manufacturing based on the extensive use of machinery and interchangeable parts.

Proper noun

the Habakkuk thesis

  1. The theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of manufacturing based on the extensive use of machinery and interchangeable parts.

Synonyms of Habakkuk thesis

Origin of Habakkuk thesis

Proposed by John Habakkuk (1915–2002), British economic historian, in his work American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century: The Search for Labour-Saving Inventions (1962).

Questions about Habakkuk thesis

What does Habakkuk thesis mean?
Habakkuk thesis means the theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of manufacturing based on the extensive use of machinery and interchangeable parts.
What part of speech is Habakkuk thesis?
Habakkuk thesis is a proper noun.

Words near Habakkuk thesis in the dictionary

  1. Habadniks
  2. Habag
  3. habaki
  4. Habakkuk
  5. Habakkuk hypothesis
  6. Habakkuk thesis
  7. Habakuk
  8. habal-habal
  9. habal-habals
  10. habanada
  11. habanadas

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