Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

habakkuk thesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

Syllables: habakkuk the-sis
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of manufacturing based on the extensive use of machinery and interchangeable parts.

Etymology

Proposed by John Habakkuk (1915–2002), British economic historian, in his work American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century: The Search for Labour-Saving Inventions (1962).

Inflected Forms

the Habakkuk thesis (canonical)

Synonyms

Habakkuk hypothesis Rothbarth-Habakkuk thesis

Questions

What does habakkuk thesis mean?: The theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of manufacturing based on the extensive use of machinery and interchangeable parts.
Where does habakkuk thesis come from?: Proposed by John Habakkuk (1915–2002), British economic historian, in his work American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century: The Search for Labour-Saving Inventions (1962).

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