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... America and Asia, and coalmining, textiles and iron and steel alone contributed over 70 per cent of the country's export earnings.9 It is this 'bias' towards the staple industries which has led some economic historians to conclude that ...
... America and Asia, and coalmining, textiles and iron and steel alone contributed over 70 per cent of the country's export earnings.9 It is this 'bias' towards the staple industries which has led some economic historians to conclude that ...
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... American economies were industrialising on the basis of more sophisticated technology and forms of industrial organisation. By 1913 they were relatively diversified, encompassing most of the traditional staple industries and also the ...
... American economies were industrialising on the basis of more sophisticated technology and forms of industrial organisation. By 1913 they were relatively diversified, encompassing most of the traditional staple industries and also the ...
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... American competitors, British firms were generally too small to offer attractive and competitive credit facilities: few commercial travellers were employed and, as many a consular report lamented, techniques of salesmanship were crude ...
... American competitors, British firms were generally too small to offer attractive and competitive credit facilities: few commercial travellers were employed and, as many a consular report lamented, techniques of salesmanship were crude ...
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... American industry, is that there was a failure to replace the outmoded mule with the more efficient, capital-intensive ring spindle. Criticisms have also been levelled at the weaving section to the effect that its record in the ...
... American industry, is that there was a failure to replace the outmoded mule with the more efficient, capital-intensive ring spindle. Criticisms have also been levelled at the weaving section to the effect that its record in the ...
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Contents
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Growth and Stagnation | 24 |
Recovery on the Dole | 57 |
the Bankrupt State | 82 |
the Political Economy of Failure | 105 |
Statistical Tables | 137 |
Notes | 160 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 201 |
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2nd series American Bacon and Eltis balance of payments Bank of England Blackaby boom Bretton Woods Britain Britain’s economic Britain’s international British economy British industry capital cent coalmining Coalmining Industry competition considerable cost cotton countries country’s currency current account De-industrialisation decline deficit depression dollar domestic economic growth Economic History economic policy empire employment Europe European exchange expenditure exports factors favour foreign Germany gold standard government’s Harrod Howson ibid Imperial Preference important income increased inflation international economy interwar period J. M. Keynes Keynes Keynes’s Keynesian lend-lease loan London major manufacturing industry ment million Moggridge Monetary Policy Montagu Norman multilateral ofthe organisation output political position postwar prewar primary producing problem productivity programme protectionism rate of growth reduction reproduced by permission rise role Second Labour Government sector Skidelsky staple industries Sterling Area structure Table reproduced tariff trade union Treasury