Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain

Essays in Historical Economics
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-31305-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Miniset B. Economic History

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 Late Victorian Britain Part Three: Britain in the World Economy, 1846-1913.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCloskey, D. N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE 1. The Achievements of the Cliometric School 2. Does the Past Have Useful Economics? PART TWO 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 · McCloskey on Victorian Growth: A Comment (by Derek H. Aldcroft) · Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder to Derek Aldcroft · A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It · Victorian Britain Did Fail (by N.F.R. Crafts) · No It Did Not: A Reply to Crafts PART THREE 7. From Dependence to Autonym: 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 10. How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913 (with J. Richard Zecher)

Über Autor(innen)

McCloskey, D. N.