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The productivity race : British manufacturing in international perspective 1850-1990 /
This book is a reassessment of British performance in manufacturing since 1850 in the light of new evidence on international comparisons of productivity. Using a novel analytical framework of technological evolution, Stephen Broadberry uncovers new ways of looking at Britain's relative economic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and overview
- pt. 1. Measuring comparative productivity performance. 2. International comparisons of productivity in manufacturing: benchmark estimates by industry. 3. Labour productivity in aggregate manufacturing: Britain, the United States and Germany. 4. Extending the picture: manufacturing productivity in other industrialised countries. 5. Manufacturing and the whole economy
- pt. 2. Explaining comparative productivity performance. 6. Technology. 7. Economic geography: markets and natural resources. 8. Accumulation of physical and human capital. 9. Competition and adjustment
- pt. 3. Reassessing the performance of British industry. 10. The rise of competition from abroad, 1850-1914.