| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 409 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Cambridge studies in economic history
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Cambridge studies in economic history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Service industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Service industries. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Service industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Industrial productivity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Industrial productivity. |
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Industrial productivity -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Industrial productivity -- Europe -- Regional disparities -- History.
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Europe. |
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Regional disparities. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Broadberry, S.N. Market services and the productivity race, 1850-2000. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2006 9780521867184 0521867185 (DLC) 2007295045 (OCoLC)71238875 |
| ISBN |
9780511349843 (electronic book) |
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051134984X (electronic book) |
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9780511495748 (electronic book) |
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0511495749 (electronic book) |
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9780521867184 |
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0521867185 |
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