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Economic maturity, 1860-1939
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ISBN: 0521820375 0521527376 Year: 2004 Volume: 2

Structural change and growth, 1939-2000
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ISBN: 0521820383 0521527384 Year: 2004 Volume: 3

The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain. 1: Industrialisation, 1700-1860
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ISBN: 0521820367 0521527368 Year: 2004 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,


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The growth and fluctuation of the British economy 1790-1850 : an historical , statistical, and theoretical study of Britain's economic development
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ISBN: 085527042X 9780855270421 Year: 1975 Publisher: Hassocks Harvester press

Market services and the productivity race, 1850-2000
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ISBN: 0521867185 9780521867184 9780511495748 9780521123143 9780511349843 051134984X 0511495749 1107170621 128108591X 9786611085919 0511347995 1139132318 0511350740 0511348967 0521123143 Year: 2006 Volume: *3 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years. Whereas in the mid-nineteenth century Britain had higher productivity than the United States and Germany, by 1990 both countries had overtaken Britain. The key to achieving high productivity was the 'industrialisation' of market services, which involved both the serving of business and the provision of mass-market consumer services in a more business like fashion. Comparative productivity varied with the uneven spread of industrialised service sector provision across sectors. Stephen Broadberry provides a quantitative overview of these trends, together with a qualitative account of developments within individual sectors, including shipping, railways, road and air transport, telecommunications, wholesale and retail distribution, banking, and finance.


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The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain. 1: Industrialisation 1700 - 1860.
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ISBN: 9781107067219 9781107646414 9781107038455 9781107631434 9781107038462 9781107686731 1107038456 1107686733 1107067219 1107038464 1107631432 1107646413 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

Mammon and the pursuit of empire : the economics of British imperialism
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ISBN: 0521357233 0521236126 9780521357234 Year: 1988 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.

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