Author: Phyllis DeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
British economic Growth, 1688-1959
Author: Phyllis DeaneBritish Economic Growth, 1688-1959
Author: Phyllis DeaneBritish Economic Growth 1688-1959
Author: Phyllis DeaneBritish Economic Growth 1688-1959
Author: Phyllis DeaneBritish Economic Growth, 1270–1870
Author: Stephen BroadberryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070783
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.
British economic growth, 1688-1959
Author: Phyllis DeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The First Industrial Revolution
Author: Phyllis DeanePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296090
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book identifies the strategic changes that affected Britain from 1750-1850.
A Farewell to Alms
Author: Gregory ClarkPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
Britain's Political Economies
Author: Julian HoppitPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015251
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain
Author: Roderick FloudPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038464
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.