Essays on a Mature Economy : Britain After 1840 /

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Debating the promises and limits of the "new economic history," seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of her industrial dominance in 1840 to her eclipse by the surging economies of Germany and the United States. Their discussion brings a new meth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McCloskey, Deirdre N. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1971.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Economic history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions economiques > 1918-1945 > Congres.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions economiques > 19e siecle > Congres.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 1918-1945 > Congresses.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 19th century > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Mathematical Social Science Board / Fogel, Robert W.
  • Preface
  • Participants of the Conference
  • Editor's Introduction
  • I. Britain and the Atlantic Economy
  • 1. The American tariff, British exports and American iron production, 1840-1860 / Engerman, Stanley
  • 2. Demographic determinants of British and American building cycles, 1870-1913 / Thomas, Brinley
  • II. The Functioning of the Capital Market
  • 3. Rigidity and bias in the British capital market, 1870-1913 / Edelstein, Michael
  • 4. British controls on long term capital movements, 1924-1931 / Moggridge, D. E.
  • III. Economic Efficiency and the Choice of Technique
  • 5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain / David, Paul A.
  • 6. The shift from sailing ships to steamships, 1850-1890: a study in technological change and its diffusion / Harley, Charles K.
  • 7. Yardsticks for Victorian entrepreneurs / Lindert, Peter H. / Trace, Keith
  • 8. International differences in productivity? Coal and steel in America and Britain before World War I / McCloskey, Donald N.
  • IV. Problems of Measuring Productivity: The Capital Goods and Service Sectors
  • 9. Changes in the productivity of labour in the British machine tool industry, 1856-1900 / Floud, Roderick
  • 10. Nihilistic impressions of British railway history / Vamplew, Wray
  • 11. Railway passenger traffic in 1865 / Hawke, Gary
  • 12. Some thoughts on the papers and discussion on the performance of the late Victorian economy / Saul, S. Berrick
  • V. The Future of the New Economic History in Britain
  • 13. Is the new economic history an export product? / Hughes, Jonathan R. T.
  • 14 Is the new economic history an export product? A comment on J. R. T. Hughes / Hartwell, R. M.
  • 15. Can the new economic history become an import substitute? / Supple, Barry
  • 16. The new economic history in Britain: a comment on the papers by Hughes, Hartwell and Supple / Matthews, R. C. O.
  • General discussion on the future of the new economic history in Britain

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