Barriers to Growth

English Economic Development from the Norman Conquest to Industrialisation
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-44276-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 153 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution. It is original and quite different from standard economic history, which has always sought for one prime mover of the industrial revolution after another. These supposed positive forces are usually depicted as novel and little reference is made to inertia. Instead the barriers dealt with here run, in the first section, from early misallocations of resources to nineteenth-century reforms which of their nature indicate the problems to be overcome. The second section deals with more physical impediments and shocks, such as floods and settlement fires. These too are ignored in ordinary treatments, which this book will supplement or even replace. It will be of interest to academic economic historians and practitioners of neighbouring subjects such as economists, historians, historical geographers, and of course their students.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Eric L.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One. The Erosion of Obstacles.- 1.Barriers and Push Forces.- 2. Military and Ecclesiastical Buildings.- 3. Dissolution of the Monasteries.- 4. Civil War.- 5. Communal Farming and Under-used Land.- 6. Tithes.- 7. Archaic Institutions.- 8. Obstructive Infrastructure.- 9. Maladministration.- Part Two. Coping with Shocks.- 10. Disease.- 11. Insults to agriculture.- 12. Storms and adverse seasons.- 13. Floods.- 14. Fires.- Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Eric L. Jones is Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK.