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Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930 book cover

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Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840 Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930

Edited By Deirdre McCloskey Copyright 2006
464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge
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These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The first eleven papers deal with a variety of topics covering a period from 1840 to the 1920s. They... Read more

PART ONE: BRITAIN AND THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY

1. The American Tariff, British Exporst and American Iron Production, 1840-1860, Stanley Engerman

2. Demographic determinants of British and American building cycles, 1870-1913, Brinley Thomas

PART TWO: THE FUNCTIONING OF THE CAPITAL MARKET

3. Rigidity and bias in the British capital market, 1870-1913, Michael Edelstein

4. British controls on long term capital movements, 1924-1931, D.E. Moggridge

PART THREE: ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY AND THE CHOICE OF TECHNIQUE

5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain, Paul A. David

6. The shift from sailing ships to steamships, 1850-1890: a study in technological change and its diffusion, Charles K. Harley

7. Yardsticks for Victorian entrepreneurs, Peter H. Lindert and Keith Trace

8. International differences in productivity? Coal and steel in America and Britain before World War I, Deirdre McCloskey

PART FOUR: PROBLEMS OF MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY: THE CAPITAL GOODS AND SERVICE SECTORS

9. Changes in the productivity of labour in the British machine tool industry, 1856-1900, Roderick Floud

10. Nihilistic impressions of British railway history, Wray Vamplew

11. Railway passenger traffic in 1865, Gary Hawke

12. Some thoughts on the papers and discussion on the performance of the late Victorian economy, S. Berrick Saul

PART FIVE: THE FUTURE OF THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY IN BRITAIN

13. Is the new economic history an export product?, Jonathan R. T. Hughes

14. Is the new economic history an export product? A comment on J.R.T. Hughes, R.M. Hartwell

15. Can the new economic history become an import substitute?, Barry Supple

16. The new economic history in Britain: a comment on the papers by Hughes, Hartwell and Supple, R.C.O. Matthews

General discussion on the future of the new economic history in Britain

 

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Deirdre McCloskey

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