The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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Most were heavily dependent upon an increasingly narrow range of export markets located mainly within the British Empire, South America and Asia, and coalmining, textiles and iron and steel alone contributed over 70 per cent of the ...
Most were heavily dependent upon an increasingly narrow range of export markets located mainly within the British Empire, South America and Asia, and coalmining, textiles and iron and steel alone contributed over 70 per cent of the ...
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... awareness of the benefits to be derived from advanced technical education and research, the German and American economies were industrialising on the basis of more sophisticated technology and forms of industrial organisation.
... awareness of the benefits to be derived from advanced technical education and research, the German and American economies were industrialising on the basis of more sophisticated technology and forms of industrial organisation.
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Unlike their German and American competitors, British firms were generally too small to offer attractive and competitive credit facilities: few commercial travellers were employed and, as many a consular report lamented, techniques of ...
Unlike their German and American competitors, British firms were generally too small to offer attractive and competitive credit facilities: few commercial travellers were employed and, as many a consular report lamented, techniques of ...
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The conventional criticism, based upon a comparison with the American industry, is that there was a failure to replace the outmoded mule with the more efficient, capitalintensive ring spindle. Criticisms have also been levelled at the ...
The conventional criticism, based upon a comparison with the American industry, is that there was a failure to replace the outmoded mule with the more efficient, capitalintensive ring spindle. Criticisms have also been levelled at the ...
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Contents
Growth and Stagnation | |
Recovery on the Dole | |
the Bankrupt State | |
the Political Economy of Failure | |
Statistical Tables | 12 |
Notes | 25 |
Bibliography | 79 |
Index | 1982 |
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