The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... performance has led many economic historians to conclude that the period after 1870 was marked by economic failure . The economy though not in absolute decline , was experiencing a rate of retardation which went beyond what could ...
... performance has led many economic historians to conclude that the period after 1870 was marked by economic failure . The economy though not in absolute decline , was experiencing a rate of retardation which went beyond what could ...
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... which has placed it at the centre of the debate on the reasons for Britain's relative economic decline . The mere cataloguing of alleged defic- iencies in business performance can , however , be of 8 THE DECLINE OF BRITISH ECONOMIC POWER.
... which has placed it at the centre of the debate on the reasons for Britain's relative economic decline . The mere cataloguing of alleged defic- iencies in business performance can , however , be of 8 THE DECLINE OF BRITISH ECONOMIC POWER.
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M.W. Kirby. iencies in business performance can , however , be of little use in explaining why entrepreneurs acted as they did . In this respect there are two competing hypotheses . The first is essentially a variant of the ' early start ...
M.W. Kirby. iencies in business performance can , however , be of little use in explaining why entrepreneurs acted as they did . In this respect there are two competing hypotheses . The first is essentially a variant of the ' early start ...
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... performance and of 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 ...
... performance and of 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 ...
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... performance in the years before 1914 , but more recently it has been argued that they masked deep- seated problems which were to play a considerable role in the industry's troubled interwar history . Unenthusiastic towards tech- nical ...
... performance in the years before 1914 , but more recently it has been argued that they masked deep- seated problems which were to play a considerable role in the industry's troubled interwar history . Unenthusiastic towards tech- nical ...
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