Why Was the Industrial Revolution Midlandish?

Leigh Shaw-Taylor writes: A podcast of Professor R.C. Allen’s, 2009 Tawney lecture, Why was the Industrial Revolution British?, given at the Economic History Society annual conference, is now available on the EHS website at http://www.ehs.org.uk/downloads.asp

http://www.yada-yada.co.uk/tawney2009/Tawney2009.html

via J. Bradford DeLong’s Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles.