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The rise of tariff protection in overseas markets after 1870 and the increasing encroachments of foreign sources of supply, both for agricultural and manufactured products, in the domestic market itself, had conspired to undermine the ...
The rise of tariff protection in overseas markets after 1870 and the increasing encroachments of foreign sources of supply, both for agricultural and manufactured products, in the domestic market itself, had conspired to undermine the ...
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Nor does it provide an adequate explanation for the reason why, of all the possible responses to foreign competition, British industrialists chose the weakest and most conservative course of action, entering new but markedly less ...
Nor does it provide an adequate explanation for the reason why, of all the possible responses to foreign competition, British industrialists chose the weakest and most conservative course of action, entering new but markedly less ...
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... underdeveloped parts of the world which had yet to be penetrated by foreign competition. In short, entrepreneurs failed to respond energetically to the challenge of overseas industrialisation and sought the line of least resistance.
... underdeveloped parts of the world which had yet to be penetrated by foreign competition. In short, entrepreneurs failed to respond energetically to the challenge of overseas industrialisation and sought the line of least resistance.
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Criticisms have also been levelled at the weaving section to the effect that its record in the installation of fully automatic looms vis-à-vis its principal foreign rivals was abysmal. Both of these criticisms appear to carry greater ...
Criticisms have also been levelled at the weaving section to the effect that its record in the installation of fully automatic looms vis-à-vis its principal foreign rivals was abysmal. Both of these criticisms appear to carry greater ...
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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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| Title | The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870 |
| Author | M.W. Kirby |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1136616748, 9781136616747 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / General |
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