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This book contains a survey and critical exposition of the new economic history of railways contained in books by Fishlow and Fogel on the United States, Hawke on Britain, Metzer and White on Russia and Fenoaltea on Italy. This important body of research which seeks to specify and to quantify the contribution made by railways to economic development in the second half of the nineteenth century has given rise to an important academic debate not only about the impact of railways on the American, British, Russian and other economies, but also about the deployment of theory and quantification in history. In format the book contrasts new and older approaches to the history of transport and outlines a critical exposition of the methods used to quantify the contribution of railways to economic growth by means of counterfactual speculation and the measurement of social savings. The author also outlines and appraises an alternative measure of the impact of railways, namely the social rate of return on capital invested in railways. The final chapters are concerned with the effects on growth generated by the construction and diffusion of railways through expenditure on labour, capital goods and industrial inputs and through their effects on the integration of markets, and patterns of location.

World history --- anno 1900-1999 --- Railroads --- -Economic history --- -Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Iron horses (Railroads) --- Lines, Railroad --- Rail industry --- Rail lines --- Rail transportation --- Railroad industry --- Railroad lines --- Railroad transportation --- Railway industry --- Railways --- Communication and traffic --- Concessions --- Public utilities --- Transportation --- Trusts, Industrial --- History --- Economic history --- History. --- -History --- Chemins de fer --- Histoire économique --- Histoire.

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Railways --- Economic development --- Chemins de fer --- Développement économique --- Western Europe --- Développement économique

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This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history. Since its emergence, in now classic publications in economic history between 1997-2000, debate on the divergent economic development that has marked the long-term economic growth of China and Western Europe has generated a vast collection of books and articles, conferences, networks, and new journals as well as intense interest from the media and educated public. O’Brien provides an historiographical survey and critique of Western views on the long-run economic development of the Imperial Economy of China – a field of commentary that stretches back to the Enlightenment. The book’s structure and core argument is concentrated upon an elaboration of, and critical engagement with, the major themes of recent academic debate on the “Great Divergence” and it will be of enormous interest to academics and students of economic history, political economy, the economics of growth and development, state formation, statistical measurements, environmental history, and the histories of science and globalization.

Economic history. --- Economic History. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- China --- Europe

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Economic policy and planning (general) --- anno 1950-1959 --- Egypt