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Record W3123197990

Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869

2006· preprint· en· W3123197990 on OpenAlexaff
Gregory Clark, David S. Jacks

Bibliographic record

VenueRePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2006
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAmerican Environmental and Regional History
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndustrial RevolutionCoalEconomic rentPossession (linguistics)FirewoodEconomicsCoal miningNatural resource economicsEconomyEngineeringEconomic historyMarket economyPolitical scienceWaste managementLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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How important was coal to the Industrial Revolution? Despite the hugegrowth of output, and the grip of coal and steam on the popular image ofthe Industrial Revolution, recent cliometric accounts have assumed coalmining mattered little to the Industrial Revolution. In contrast both E. A.Wrigley and Kenneth Pomeranz have made coal central to the story. Thispaper constructs new series on coal rents, the price of coal at pithead and atmarket, and the price of firewood, and uses them to examine this issue. Weconclude coal output expanded in the Industrial Revolution mainly as aresult of increased demand rather than technological innovations in mining.But that expansion could have occurred at any time before 1760. Furtherour coal rents series suggests that English possession of coal reserves madea negligible contribution to Industrial Revolution incomes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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