ABSTRACT
The relationship between the human population and the environment changed, apparently as a result of the Industrial Revolution in Britain between 1750 and 1850. The resulting social table provides valuable information on the industrial structure of late-seventeenth-century Britain. In particular, an estimate of aggregate industrial production for the industrial revolution will grow much faster if fast-growing cotton textiles have a large weight than if they have a small weight. The discontinuous acceleration of industrial growth seems to have been an artifact of inappropriate aggregate estimates. Historians of British agriculture have provided independent estimates of aggregate agricultural output based on the history of production that generally support N. F. R. Crafts' calculations. Estimates of agricultural growth make up an important part of estimates of British aggregate growth prior to the mid-nineteenth century. Jeffrey Williamson, who has put forward a different overall view of Britain's growth, rejects the view that agricultural advance was of similar magnitude to industrial advance.
