The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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Page 6
... considerable advantages of accumulated technical expertise and the requisite financial resources to apply that expertise.23 In other words, it would be wrong to presume that the difficulties of writing off past capital and the problem ...
... considerable advantages of accumulated technical expertise and the requisite financial resources to apply that expertise.23 In other words, it would be wrong to presume that the difficulties of writing off past capital and the problem ...
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... considerable degree of interest on the part of firms producing high-grade steels in utilising the services of highly competent industrial consultants in the generation before 1914,26 but in the absence of more such case studies the ...
... considerable degree of interest on the part of firms producing high-grade steels in utilising the services of highly competent industrial consultants in the generation before 1914,26 but in the absence of more such case studies the ...
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... considerable volume of criticism which has placed it at the centre of the debate on the reasons for Britain's relative economic decline. The mere cataloguing of alleged deficiencies in business performance can, however, be of little use ...
... considerable volume of criticism which has placed it at the centre of the debate on the reasons for Britain's relative economic decline. The mere cataloguing of alleged deficiencies in business performance can, however, be of little use ...
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... considerable way towards undermining the blanket hypothesis of entrepreneurial failure. Further examples of vigorous entrepreneurship are to be found in the tertiary sector of the economy after 1870, in distribution with the rise of the ...
... considerable way towards undermining the blanket hypothesis of entrepreneurial failure. Further examples of vigorous entrepreneurship are to be found in the tertiary sector of the economy after 1870, in distribution with the rise of the ...
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... considerable role in the industry's troubled interwar history. Unenthusiastic towards technical innovation and large-scale business enterprise, the colliery entrepreneur failed to solve the dual problems of falling labour productivity ...
... considerable role in the industry's troubled interwar history. Unenthusiastic towards technical innovation and large-scale business enterprise, the colliery entrepreneur failed to solve the dual problems of falling labour productivity ...
Contents
1 | |
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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