Enterprise and trade in Victorian Britain : essays in historical economics /
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 normal...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2003
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| Series: | Routledge library editions. Economics.
Economic history ; III. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication page; Foreword by Barry Supple; Preface; PART ONE THE METHOD OF HISTORICAL ECONOMICS; 1 The Achievements of the Cliometric School; 2 Does the Past Have Useful Economics?; PART TWO ENTERPRISE IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN; 3 From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur (with Lars G. Sandberg); 4 International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain before World War I (with an exchange with David Landes); 5 Did Victorian Britain Fail?; 6 Controversies.
- McCloskey on Victorian Growth: A Comment by Derek H. AldcroftVictorian Growth: A Rejoinder to Derek Aldcroft; Victorian Britain Did Fail by N.F.R. Crafts; No It Did Not: A Reply to Crafts; A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It; PART THREE BRITAIN IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, 1846-1913; 7 From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth; 8 Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881; 9 Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate.
