The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... Increasing Concentration of Net Assets in UK Manufacturing Industry 1957-69. The Share of the Largest 100 Firms in UK Manufacturing Net Output 1909-70. 1 The British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from Hegemony In List of Tables.
... Increasing Concentration of Net Assets in UK Manufacturing Industry 1957-69. The Share of the Largest 100 Firms in UK Manufacturing Net Output 1909-70. 1 The British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from Hegemony In List of Tables.
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... increasing encroachments of foreign sources of supply, both for agricultural and manufactured products, in the domestic market itself, had conspired to undermine the confident optimism of the mid-Victorian era when the supremacy of ...
... increasing encroachments of foreign sources of supply, both for agricultural and manufactured products, in the domestic market itself, had conspired to undermine the confident optimism of the mid-Victorian era when the supremacy of ...
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... increasing returns' or the economies of large-scale production, whereas Britain, confronted by more slowly growing markets both at home and abroad, was bound to be increasingly handicapped in overseas markets by lower industrial ...
... increasing returns' or the economies of large-scale production, whereas Britain, confronted by more slowly growing markets both at home and abroad, was bound to be increasingly handicapped in overseas markets by lower industrial ...
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... increasing proclivity to squander the hard-won wealth of their forebears in ostentatious and extravagant living. These attitudes were reflected in a substantial element of complacency in the running of British industry.39 This kind of ...
... increasing proclivity to squander the hard-won wealth of their forebears in ostentatious and extravagant living. These attitudes were reflected in a substantial element of complacency in the running of British industry.39 This kind of ...
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... increased principally by the recruitment of more labour to the industry. At first sight it appears incontrovertible that the introduction of machine mining on an extensive scale (as in the USA) would have helped to mitigate the effects ...
... increased principally by the recruitment of more labour to the industry. At first sight it appears incontrovertible that the introduction of machine mining on an extensive scale (as in the USA) would have helped to mitigate the effects ...
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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