Author: M.W. KirbyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136616675
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book was first published in 1981.
The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870
Author: M.W. KirbyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136616675
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book was first published in 1981.
Britain in Decline
Author: Andrew GamblePublisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333614410
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is an account of Britain's rise and fall, and an introduction to the main explanations of decline and political strategies for reversing it. The book has been updated and has a new concluding chapter which assesses the state of debate and the British economy after the Thatcher decade.
The British Economy since 1914
Author: Rex PopePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317884906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the state of world markets, the effect of the two world wars and the importance of cultural attitudes towards industry.
Governing the Economy
Author: Peter A. HallPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195205237
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
Author: David EdgertonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781846147753
Category : 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations, a story of building a welfare state and coping with decline. But what if Britain's history was approached from a different angle? What if we wrote about it with as we might write the history of Germany, say, or the Soviet Union, as a story of power, and of transformation? David Edgerton's major new book breaks out of the confines of traditional British national history to reveal an unfamiliar place, subject to radical discontinuities. Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ways. Such a perspective produces new and refreshed understanding of everything from the nature of British politics to the performance of British industry. Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nationgives us a grown-up, unsentimental history, one which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future.
The British Economy in the Twentieth Century
Author: Alan BoothPublisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise the proverbial 'knees-up' in a brewery; British workers are idle and greedy; its financial system is uniquely geared to the short term interests of the City rather than of manufacturing; its economic policies areperverse for industry; and its culture is fundamentally anti-industrial. There is a grain of truth in each of these statements, but only a grain. In this book, Alan Booth notes that Britain's living standards have definitely been overtaken, but evidence that Britain has fallen continuously further and further behindits major competitors is thin indeed. Although British manufacturing has been much criticised, it has performed comparatively better than the service sector. The British Economy in the Twentieth Century combines narrative with a conceptual and analytic approach to review British economic performance during the twentieth century in a controlled comparative framework. It looks at key themes, including economic growth and welfare, the working of the labour market, and the performance of entrepreneurs and managers. Alan Booth argues that a careful, balanced assessment (which must embrace the whole century rather than simply the post-war years) does not support the loud and persistent case for systematic failure in British management, labour, institutions, culture and economic policy. Relative decline has been much more modest, patchy and inevitable than commonly believed.
The British Industrial Decline
Author: Michael DintenfassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding.
Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back
Author: Nicholas CraftsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424406
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain's relative economic decline.
The British Economy 1870–1939
Author: Derek H. AldcroftPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134915346X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s
Author: Michael SandersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Since the 1870s the British economy has steadily declined from its position as the 'workshop of the world' to that of a low-ranking European power. Michael Sanderson examines the question of how far defects in education and training have contributed to this economic decline. By looking at issues such as literacy, the quality of scientific and technical training, the supposed anti-industrial bias of public schools and the older universities, the neglect of vocational and technical training and the neglect of the non-academic teenager, Michael Sanderson demonstrates that education was far from the sole cause of economic decline, but that its deficiencies have certainly played a part. This book offers an accessible and concise analysis of a topic of current importance, interest and debate and will be of interest to students and teachers of the history of education and its impact on British economic development in the twentieth century.