The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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The period between 1873 and 1896 was one of falling prices and profits, the years of the 'Great Depression' in agriculture, trade and industry when, increasingly, the dogma of free trade began to be questioned and the security of ...
The period between 1873 and 1896 was one of falling prices and profits, the years of the 'Great Depression' in agriculture, trade and industry when, increasingly, the dogma of free trade began to be questioned and the security of ...
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In this it was augmented by the ready availability of labour stemming from the depressed agricultural counties augmented in the longer term by the high rate of natural population increase in the ...
In this it was augmented by the ready availability of labour stemming from the depressed agricultural counties augmented in the longer term by the high rate of natural population increase in the ...
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... World War but it is no argument to claim that nineteenthcentury entrepreneurs should have been expected to anticipate the First World War, its dislocative economic effects, and the severity and duration of the interwar depression.
... World War but it is no argument to claim that nineteenthcentury entrepreneurs should have been expected to anticipate the First World War, its dislocative economic effects, and the severity and duration of the interwar depression.
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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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