The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... Export of Capital in the UK 1861-1913. 2 World Exports of Manufactured Goods. 3 Average Annual Rates of Growth of Selected Indices of the UK Economy 1860-1913. 4 Comparative Long-Term Rates of Growth 1870/1-1913. 5 UK Balance of ...
... Export of Capital in the UK 1861-1913. 2 World Exports of Manufactured Goods. 3 Average Annual Rates of Growth of Selected Indices of the UK Economy 1860-1913. 4 Comparative Long-Term Rates of Growth 1870/1-1913. 5 UK Balance of ...
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... export boom. In short, Britain's economic position on the eve of the First World War appeared to be one of great strength. Yet it is salutary to remember that well before the turn of the century many of those doubts and uncertainties ...
... export boom. In short, Britain's economic position on the eve of the First World War appeared to be one of great strength. Yet it is salutary to remember that well before the turn of the century many of those doubts and uncertainties ...
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... exports, a situation which rendered the country increasingly dependent for the maintenance of living standards upon the receipt of invisible income derived from international business services and interest and dividends from overseas ...
... exports, a situation which rendered the country increasingly dependent for the maintenance of living standards upon the receipt of invisible income derived from international business services and interest and dividends from overseas ...
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... exporting industries as cotton textiles, coalmining, iron and steel, and possibly general engineering.4 Measures of ... export markets located mainly within the British Empire, South America and Asia, and coalmining, textiles and iron ...
... exporting industries as cotton textiles, coalmining, iron and steel, and possibly general engineering.4 Measures of ... export markets located mainly within the British Empire, South America and Asia, and coalmining, textiles and iron ...
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... exports helped to retard the development of such technologically sophisticated industries as electrical engineering, scientific instruments and apparatus, road vehicles and advanced chemical products. These industries were the 'wave of ...
... exports helped to retard the development of such technologically sophisticated industries as electrical engineering, scientific instruments and apparatus, road vehicles and advanced chemical products. These industries were the 'wave of ...
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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