The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... UK Home Market 1961-75. UK Share in World Trade in Invisibles and Private Services 1955-76. International Comparison of Labour Costs. 27 Growth Rate of UK Money Supply 1968-73. Estimated Industrial Distribution of Research and ...
... UK Home Market 1961-75. UK Share in World Trade in Invisibles and Private Services 1955-76. International Comparison of Labour Costs. 27 Growth Rate of UK Money Supply 1968-73. Estimated Industrial Distribution of Research and ...
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... Britain's international economic position reassessed. The 'Fair Trade' movement of the early 1880s and the 'Made in Germany' campaign of the following decade were among the early manifestations of a developing xenophobia in British ...
... Britain's international economic position reassessed. The 'Fair Trade' movement of the early 1880s and the 'Made in Germany' campaign of the following decade were among the early manifestations of a developing xenophobia in British ...
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... international business services and interest and dividends from overseas ... Britain's principal overseas competitors, Germany and the USA (see Tables 3 ... British economy the relevant statistical indices are especially disappointing ...
... international business services and interest and dividends from overseas ... Britain's principal overseas competitors, Germany and the USA (see Tables 3 ... British economy the relevant statistical indices are especially disappointing ...
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... Britain highly vulnerable to changes in the international economy. This is not to suggest that the pre-1914 economy was completely resistant to structural transforma tion since there were, in fact, quite marked changes in the ...
... Britain highly vulnerable to changes in the international economy. This is not to suggest that the pre-1914 economy was completely resistant to structural transforma tion since there were, in fact, quite marked changes in the ...
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... international trade -the technologically advanced industries whose products, as noted above, were of comparatively limited importance in Britain's exports of manufactures.22 Like the 'climacteric', the 'early start' thesis is not ...
... international trade -the technologically advanced industries whose products, as noted above, were of comparatively limited importance in Britain's exports of manufactures.22 Like the 'climacteric', the 'early start' thesis is not ...
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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