Strong banking system -
Financial revolution - Shopping
revolution
Transport (network
of canals, turnpike
roads)
Liberal economic and political climate (there was a parliamtentary
democracy, political stability, the absence of an absolute
monarchy. The State protected overseas trades and ensured
economic liberalisation which led to the abolition of commercial
monopolies
Favourable intellectual
climate
Belief in progress, central idea of the
Enlightenment
Protestant work ethic and the spirt of
capitalism
No censorship by Church or
State
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, dynamism of the economy:
Men of ideas and Men of action started working together
INDUSTRIES AND
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
New farming methods: rotation of
crops and technological
improvements