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Over the last two hundred years the world economy has shown a process of economic growth with only a few interruptions. This development began in the eighteenth century in Great Britain, with the invention of how to organize mass production and how to use technology for that purpose. In the course of time this industrial revolution spread to other countries and technological progress has been incorporated into the system of industrial production. As a result, production has increased substantially, world population has expanded and average world GDP per capita has increased from $200 U.S. in 1775 to $1800 in 1975 (Krelle, ed., 1989).
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Nentjes, A., Wiersma, D. (1992). On Economic Growth, Technology and the Environment. In: Krabbe, J.J., Heijman, W.J.M. (eds) National Income and Nature: Externalities, Growth and Steady State. Economy & Environment, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2590-1_8
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