Market services and the productivity race, 1850-2000 : British performance in international perspective
"Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of the United Kingdom's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years."--Jacket
History
xix, 409 pages ; 24 cm.
9780521867184, 0521867185
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I: Measuring comparative productivity performance
The contribution of services to the productivity performance of the whole economy
Comparative productivity performance in market services
A sectoral database: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990
II: Explaining comparative productivity performance
Technology, organisational change and the industrialisation of services
Investment in physical and human capital
Competition and the institutional framework
III: Reassessing the performance of British market services
The 'golden age' of British commerce, 1870-1914
The collapse of the liberal world economic order, 1914-1950
Completing the industrialisation of services, 1950-1990
British services in the 1990s: a preliminary assessment
Summary and conclusion