The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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27 Growth Rate of UK Money Supply 1968–73. 28 Estimated Industrial Distribution of Research and Development Expenditure 1962. 29 The Increasing Concentration of Net Assets in UK Manufacturing List of Tables.
27 Growth Rate of UK Money Supply 1968–73. 28 Estimated Industrial Distribution of Research and Development Expenditure 1962. 29 The Increasing Concentration of Net Assets in UK Manufacturing List of Tables.
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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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Total factor productivity is usually referred to as 'the residual' in so far as it measures the contribution to the growth of output of improvements in the productivity of resources after allowing for the growth of the labour supply and ...
Total factor productivity is usually referred to as 'the residual' in so far as it measures the contribution to the growth of output of improvements in the productivity of resources after allowing for the growth of the labour supply and ...
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Similarly, with the automatic loom, the high capital cost of installation was outweighed by savings in labour costs.47 These conditions did not apply in the British industry mainly because there was a readily available supply of highly ...
Similarly, with the automatic loom, the high capital cost of installation was outweighed by savings in labour costs.47 These conditions did not apply in the British industry mainly because there was a readily available supply of highly ...
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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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