The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... country in any subsequent phase of development should be able to maintain its leading competitive position simply because it possesses the considerable advantages of accumulated technical expertise and the requisite financial resources ...
... country in any subsequent phase of development should be able to maintain its leading competitive position simply because it possesses the considerable advantages of accumulated technical expertise and the requisite financial resources ...
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... country's education system: the established English universities and public schools were suffused with the influence of the classics and other non-vocational disciplines,28 while the emergence of an organised technical and secondary ...
... country's education system: the established English universities and public schools were suffused with the influence of the classics and other non-vocational disciplines,28 while the emergence of an organised technical and secondary ...
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... country's entrepreneurs in particular, is grounded in the belief that an analysis based upon the assumption of'failure' is grossly misleading since objectivity demands that patterns of business behaviour should be related to the ...
... country's entrepreneurs in particular, is grounded in the belief that an analysis based upon the assumption of'failure' is grossly misleading since objectivity demands that patterns of business behaviour should be related to the ...
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... country's balance of payments.51 At one time, the statistics of expansion were sufficient by themselves as an indicator of the industry's successful performance in the years before 1914, but more recently it has been argued that they ...
... country's balance of payments.51 At one time, the statistics of expansion were sufficient by themselves as an indicator of the industry's successful performance in the years before 1914, but more recently it has been argued that they ...
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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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