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I dedicate this essay to Karl R. Popper on his seventy-fifth birthday, 28 July, 1977. It is impossible to express here how much I owe to his scientific work and his personal inspiration. I am indebted to Knut Borchardt, Wolfram Fischer, Patrice L.-R. Higgonet and Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich for comments and valuable criticism of an earlier draft.
The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
Adam Smith, 1776
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Kiesewetter, H. (1981). Regional Disparities in Wages: the Cotton Industry in Nineteenth-century Germany — Some Methodological Considerations. In: Bairoch, P., Lévy-Leboyer, M. (eds) Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04707-9_24
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