The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... factors of production and also the ability of an economy to utilise its resources in the most productive manner. As a statistical measure, therefore, total factor productivity could be determined by a wide range of influences, from the ...
... factors of production and also the ability of an economy to utilise its resources in the most productive manner. As a statistical measure, therefore, total factor productivity could be determined by a wide range of influences, from the ...
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... factor of major importance in underpinning the charge of failure is the unsatisfactory nature of those arguments based upon the 'inevitability' of retardation in a mature industrial economy. In the latter context, several observers have ...
... factor of major importance in underpinning the charge of failure is the unsatisfactory nature of those arguments based upon the 'inevitability' of retardation in a mature industrial economy. In the latter context, several observers have ...
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... . Nevertheless, despite the validity of this kind of argument it remains true that the rate of growth of a country's exports can be determined also by domestic factors, in the nature of demand in the. THE. BRITISH. ECONOMY. 1870-1913. 5.
... . Nevertheless, despite the validity of this kind of argument it remains true that the rate of growth of a country's exports can be determined also by domestic factors, in the nature of demand in the. THE. BRITISH. ECONOMY. 1870-1913. 5.
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M.W. Kirby. by domestic factors, in the nature of demand in the home market, for example, which may restrict the potential for scale economies or, more to the point in the present context, by the reaction of industrialists in late ...
M.W. Kirby. by domestic factors, in the nature of demand in the home market, for example, which may restrict the potential for scale economies or, more to the point in the present context, by the reaction of industrialists in late ...
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... factor in aiding the expansion of German and American manufactured exports after 1880. By encouraging the sale of 'traditional goods in traditional markets' the merchanting system intensified industrial overcommitment 'and indirectly ...
... factor in aiding the expansion of German and American manufactured exports after 1880. By encouraging the sale of 'traditional goods in traditional markets' the merchanting system intensified industrial overcommitment 'and indirectly ...
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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