Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics, Volume 3Psychology Press, 2003 - 230 pages The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed. |
Contents
The Achievements of the Cliometric School 39 19 | 3 |
Does the Past Have Useful Economics? | 19 |
Judgments on the Late | 55 |
International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel | 72 |
Controversies | 111 |
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