The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... overseas competitors and the earlier achievement is unfavourable (seeTables 3and4, pp. 140–1). As for measures of the efficiency of the British economy the relevant statistical indices are especially disappointing. After two decades of ...
... overseas competitors and the earlier achievement is unfavourable (seeTables 3and4, pp. 140–1). As for measures of the efficiency of the British economy the relevant statistical indices are especially disappointing. After two decades of ...
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... overseas marketing. 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 ...
... overseas marketing. 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 ...
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... British public was to become so familiar were already present among the business and investing classes of late Victorian society . The rise of tariff protection in overseas markets after 1870 and the increasing encroachments of foreign ...
... British public was to become so familiar were already present among the business and investing classes of late Victorian society . The rise of tariff protection in overseas markets after 1870 and the increasing encroachments of foreign ...
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... overseas invest- ments ( see Table 1 , p . 138 ) . The volume of exports continued to grow after 1870 but at a declining rate , both in relation to what had been achieved earlier in the century and in comparison with Britain's principal ...
... overseas invest- ments ( see Table 1 , p . 138 ) . The volume of exports continued to grow after 1870 but at a declining rate , both in relation to what had been achieved earlier in the century and in comparison with Britain's principal ...
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... overseas inevitably meant a reduction in the British share of world markets . As Lord Kaldor has pointed out , in commenting on the general process of industrialisation after 1850 : The successful latecomers to industrialisation were ...
... overseas inevitably meant a reduction in the British share of world markets . As Lord Kaldor has pointed out , in commenting on the general process of industrialisation after 1850 : The successful latecomers to industrialisation were ...
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2nd series American Bacon and Eltis balance of payments Bank of England Blackaby boom Bretton Woods Britain Britain's economic British economy British industry British Overseas Cambridge capital cent Coalmining Industry competition considerable cost cotton countries country's currency current account D. H. Aldcroft De-industrialisation decline deficit depression dollar economic growth Economic History Review economic policy empire employment Europe European exchange expenditure factors favour foreign Germany gold standard government's Howson ibid Imperial Preference important income increased inflation international economy interwar period J. M. Keynes John Maynard Keynes Keynes lend-lease loan London major manufacturing industry ment million Moggridge Monetary Policy multilateral organisation output political position postwar prewar primary producing problem programme protectionism rate of growth recovery reduction reproduced by permission rise Robert Skidelsky role Second Labour Government sector Skidelsky staple industries Sterling Area structure Table reproduced tariff trade union Treasury