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... difficulties of writing off past capital and the problem of interrelatedness were significantly greater in Britain than elsewhere.24Other economies may have been more diversified by 1914 but they also possessed their ageing industrial ...
... difficulties of writing off past capital and the problem of interrelatedness were significantly greater in Britain than elsewhere.24Other economies may have been more diversified by 1914 but they also possessed their ageing industrial ...
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... difficulties of writing off past capital and the problem of interrelatedness were significantly greater in Britain than elsewhere.24 Other economies may have been more diversified by 1914 but they also possessed their ageing industrial ...
... difficulties of writing off past capital and the problem of interrelatedness were significantly greater in Britain than elsewhere.24 Other economies may have been more diversified by 1914 but they also possessed their ageing industrial ...
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... difficulties after the First World War but it is no argument to claim that nineteenth - century entrepreneurs should have been expected to anticipate the First World War , its dislocative economic effects , and the severity and duration ...
... difficulties after the First World War but it is no argument to claim that nineteenth - century entrepreneurs should have been expected to anticipate the First World War , its dislocative economic effects , and the severity and duration ...
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... difficulty with this argument is that it tends to ignore the methods by which industry in general raised finance in Britain before 1914. The typical firm , as in coalmining , was small scale , organised in the form of a partnership or ...
... difficulty with this argument is that it tends to ignore the methods by which industry in general raised finance in Britain before 1914. The typical firm , as in coalmining , was small scale , organised in the form of a partnership or ...
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