The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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20 Manufacturing Investment as a Proportion of Gross Domestic Product 1960–72. 21 Rates of Male Unemployment in Great Britain 1955–77. 22 Gross Profit Shares of UK Manufacturing and Services 1966–76. 23 Proportions of Total Employment ...
20 Manufacturing Investment as a Proportion of Gross Domestic Product 1960–72. 21 Rates of Male Unemployment in Great Britain 1955–77. 22 Gross Profit Shares of UK Manufacturing and Services 1966–76. 23 Proportions of Total Employment ...
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Yet it is salutary to remember that well before the turn of the century many of those doubts and uncertainties with which a later British public was to become so familiar were already present among the business and investing classes of ...
Yet it is salutary to remember that well before the turn of the century many of those doubts and uncertainties with which a later British public was to become so familiar were already present among the business and investing classes of ...
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... the country increasingly dependent for the maintenance of living standards upon the receipt of invisible income derived from international business services and interest and dividends from overseas investments (see Table 1, p. 138).
... the country increasingly dependent for the maintenance of living standards upon the receipt of invisible income derived from international business services and interest and dividends from overseas investments (see Table 1, p. 138).
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electrical power, for example, and advanced chemical processes, coincided with the spread of industrialisation overseas reducing the stimulus to invest in innovation. Although the climacteric thesis has much to commend it, ...
electrical power, for example, and advanced chemical processes, coincided with the spread of industrialisation overseas reducing the stimulus to invest in innovation. Although the climacteric thesis has much to commend it, ...
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'What reason could there be for not investing in cotton mills in 1905 when profits expected and realised up to the ... the industry after 1920 was that even if there had been substantial investment in new technology, overseas markets, ...
'What reason could there be for not investing in cotton mills in 1905 when profits expected and realised up to the ... the industry after 1920 was that even if there had been substantial investment in new technology, overseas markets, ...
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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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