... also through its affect upon the real incomes of food consumers. It is the extent of these last wto effects with respect to the industrial sector that some see as a crucial propellant of the British industrial revolution. Annual Agricultural Output Growth (%) Crafts Deane and Cole 1700-1760 0.60 0.24 1760-1780 0.13 0.47 1780-1801 0.75 0.65 1801-1831 1.18 1.64 Table 1 - Annual agricultural output growth 1700-1831 The annual output growth figures for agriculture in Table 1 above at first sight seem less than remarkable. The discrepancy between the values obtained by Crafts and Deane and Cole are accounted for by differences in measurement by the two authorities. Deane and Cole used esimates of factor incomes deflated by a cost-of-living index to arrive at their values for the demand by consumers for agricultural output. However, in arriving at their values, they have assumed that per capita consumption and relative prices of agricultural goods have remained constant, which makes the values less credible. Crafts ...

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