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Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850 A preliminary survey, report of a conference held the University of Sheffield, 5-7 January 1969
216 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors. Each paper is accompanied by a summary of the discussion which... Read more
Introduction, Sidney Pollard
1. Modern Practices and conventions in measuring capital formation in national accounts, J. Hibbert.
2. The compilation of gross domestic fixed capital formation statistics, 1856-1913, C.H. Feinstein
3. Fixed capital formation in the British cotton manufacturing industry, S.D. Chapman
Comments by M.M. Edwards and D.T. Jenkins
4. Capital formation in transport in Britain
i. Roads and canals, J.E. Ginarlin
ii. Shipping, R.Craig
5. Capital formation in agriculture, B.A. Holderness
Comments by F.M.L Thompson and A. Harrison.
Biography
Pollard, S.; Higgins, J.P.P
