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Market services and the productivity race, 1850-2000 : British performance in international perspective /
"Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of the United Kingdom's comparative productivit...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in economic history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- I: Measuring comparative productivity performance
- The contribution of services to the productivity performance of the whole economy
- Comparative productivity performance in market services
- A sectoral database: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990
- II: Explaining comparative productivity performance
- Technology, organisational change and the industrialisation of services
- Investment in physical and human capital
- Competition and the institutional framework
- III: Reassessing the performance of British market services
- The 'golden age' of British commerce, 1870-1914
- The collapse of the liberal world economic order, 1914-1950
- Completing the industrialisation of services, 1950-1990
- British services in the 1990s: a preliminary assessment
- Summary and conclusion.