Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Market history and investing in high supply-and-demand economies

What drives supply and demand? High wages and cheap energy, asserts Professor Robert Allen in his enlightening book The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Published last month by Cambridge University Press, this is the first volume in the Economic History Society’s series New Approaches to Economic and Social History.

Why was the Industrial Revolution British?
Robert C. Allen © voxEU.org
15 May 2009

It is still not clear among economic historians why the Industrial Revolution actually took place in 18th century Britain. This column explains that it is the British Empire's success in international trade that created Britain's high wage, cheap energy economy, and it was the spring board for the Industrial Revolution.
Read the article here.

5 comments:

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    Mind if I link it on my favorite blogs?

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  4. Thank you all for your virtual visits and comments.

    You always will be welcome and more than that we need your input and insights to truly create an agora.

    A response to Anonymous follows.

    A sound investment should be made on strong fundamentals. Studying markets history provides the insights required to find better investment opportunities and invest successfully.
    Seeking analogies in today's world economies to Britain's industrial revolution will be a step forward to investments bonanza.
    Saying all that, it will be rewarding in the future, if someone takes a look to what Goldman Sacks, a US investment bank, coined as BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) for investments ideas.

    A few relevant facts:

    The BRIC countries combined contain 43% of the world's population, and the wages go up as these countries develop giving the population a huge spending power.
    China will deliver over 1 billion new consumers to the global economy over the next 25 years.

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  5. Market neutral investing, for the most part, the overall strategy will involve taking long and short position in a stock (betting both for and against it) in order to maximise the return from making good stock selections and minimise the impact from broad wealth market movements.

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