Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broadberry, S. N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in economic history.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.