History & The Arts
Why Do Historians Disagree?
...data relating to the wages of craftsmen compiled during the 1950s and 1960s by Phelps-Brown and Hopkins. The estimates of growth rates were revised downwards by Deane and Cole, largely on the basis of alternative data based on new research into Gross Domestic Product as well as wages. In the mid-1980s a further and more radical downward estimate of growth figures that...