The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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Naturally, I am solely responsible for any errors of fact or interpretation. My thanks are also due to Dr W. H. Janeway for permission to quote from his Ph D thesis on the second Labour government and to Miss M. E. A. Hendry for ...
Naturally, I am solely responsible for any errors of fact or interpretation. My thanks are also due to Dr W. H. Janeway for permission to quote from his Ph D thesis on the second Labour government and to Miss M. E. A. Hendry for ...
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7 The distinctive nature of Britain's industrial structure was in fact one of the most outstanding features of the pre-1914 economy. In 1907 the old-established staple trades of textiles, coalmining, iron and steel and general ...
7 The distinctive nature of Britain's industrial structure was in fact one of the most outstanding features of the pre-1914 economy. In 1907 the old-established staple trades of textiles, coalmining, iron and steel and general ...
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completely resistant to structural transformation since there were, in fact, quite marked changes in the distribution of the occupied labour force. Agriculture suffered the greatest proportional losses with mining and the tertiary ...
completely resistant to structural transformation since there were, in fact, quite marked changes in the distribution of the occupied labour force. Agriculture suffered the greatest proportional losses with mining and the tertiary ...
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The fact that they had been sunk in an earlier period of mining technology militated against efficient production and, as resort was had to thinner and less productive seams in the period of rapid market expansion after 1880, ...
The fact that they had been sunk in an earlier period of mining technology militated against efficient production and, as resort was had to thinner and less productive seams in the period of rapid market expansion after 1880, ...
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There is, too, the problem of related costs – the fact that it was difficult to justify the installation of coal cutters without incurring additional and proportionately much greater expenditure in the provision of a power supply and ...
There is, too, the problem of related costs – the fact that it was difficult to justify the installation of coal cutters without incurring additional and proportionately much greater expenditure in the provision of a power supply and ...
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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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