Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000 - British Performance in International Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His recent books include The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective (1997) and! as editor with Mark Harrison! The Economics of World War I (2005). Klappentext A major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years. Zusammenfassung A major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years. Stephen Broadberry provides a qualitative account of developments within individual sectors! including shipping! railways! road and air transport! telecommunications! wholesale and retail distribution! banking! and finance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and overview; Part I. Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance: 2. The contribution of services to the productivity performance of the whole economy; 3. Comparative productivity performance in market services; 4. A sectoral data base: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990; Part II. Explaining Comparative Productivity Performance: 5. Technology, organisational change and the industrialisation of services; 6. Investment in physical and human capital; 7. Competition and the institutional framework; Part III. Reassessing the Performance of British Market Services: 8. The 'golden age' of British commerce, 1850-1914; 9. The collapse of the liberal world economic order, 1914-50; 10. Completing the industrialisation of services, 1950-90; 11. British services in the 1990s: a preliminary assessment; 12. Summary and conclusions; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Stephen Broadberry, Stephen (University of Warwick) Broadberry, Broadberry Stephen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521123143
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12314-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history