Counterfactual Estimate: Land Required to Replace American Cotton with British Wool
A counterfactual analysis indicates that substituting domestically produced wool for imported cotton would have been practically impossible for Britain. Had the textile industry relied on wool instead of cotton from North American plantations, the amount of wool required would have demanded more land than all of Britain's existing crop and pasture areas combined. This estimate illustrates the immense role of colonial resources in overcoming domestic land constraints.
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