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1 online resource (xix, 211 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Routledge library editions - economics
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Economic history ; III
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Routledge library editions. Economics.
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Economic history ; III.
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| Note |
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1981. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication page; Foreword by Barry Supple; Preface; PART ONE THE METHOD OF HISTORICAL ECONOMICS; 1 The Achievements of the Cliometric School; 2 Does the Past Have Useful Economics?; PART TWO ENTERPRISE IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN; 3 From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur (with Lars G. Sandberg); 4 International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain before World War I (with an exchange with David Landes); 5 Did Victorian Britain Fail?; 6 Controversies. |
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McCloskey on Victorian Growth: A Comment by Derek H. AldcroftVictorian Growth: A Rejoinder to Derek Aldcroft; Victorian Britain Did Fail by N.F.R. Crafts; No It Did Not: A Reply to Crafts; A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It; PART THREE BRITAIN IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, 1846-1913; 7 From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth; 8 Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881; 9 Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate. |
| Summary |
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed. The book is structured as follows: Part One: The Method of Historical Economics Part Two: Enterprise in. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic history.
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Economic history. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McCloskey, Deirdre N. Enterprise and trade in Victorian Britain 0415313058 (OCoLC)52684290 |
| ISBN |
9781134558278 (electronic book) |
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1134558279 (electronic book) |
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0415313058 |
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9780415313056 |
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