The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... organisations we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of ...
... organisations we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of ...
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... organisation of productive processes and managerial and entrepreneurial standards, to the allocation of resources and the extent to which the economy is subject to restrictive labour and business practices. According to the latest ...
... organisation of productive processes and managerial and entrepreneurial standards, to the allocation of resources and the extent to which the economy is subject to restrictive labour and business practices. According to the latest ...
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... organisation. By 1913 they were relatively diversified, encompassing most of the traditional staple industries and also the new growth sectors of international trade -the technologically advanced industries whose products, as noted ...
... organisation. By 1913 they were relatively diversified, encompassing most of the traditional staple industries and also the new growth sectors of international trade -the technologically advanced industries whose products, as noted ...
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... organised technical and secondary-education sector - vital for the production of an intermediate class of shopfloor foremen and supervisors -was delayed until well after 1890.29 Add to this ... organisation. THE. BRITISH. ECONOMY. 1870-1913.
... organised technical and secondary-education sector - vital for the production of an intermediate class of shopfloor foremen and supervisors -was delayed until well after 1890.29 Add to this ... organisation. THE. BRITISH. ECONOMY. 1870-1913.
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M.W. Kirby. removed in the 1850s but by 1914 British industrial organisation remained 'partly ossified at a ... organisations created a barrier of communication between manufacturer and customer, a major disadvantage in promoting the sale ...
M.W. Kirby. removed in the 1850s but by 1914 British industrial organisation remained 'partly ossified at a ... organisations created a barrier of communication between manufacturer and customer, a major disadvantage in promoting the sale ...
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