Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back - British Economic Growth From Industrial Revolution to Financial

Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain's relative economic decline.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The first Industrial Revolution; 3. American overtaking; 4. The interwar years: onwards and downwards; 5. Falling behind in the Golden Age; 6. From the Golden Age to the financial crisis; 7. Concluding comments.

About the author

Nicholas Crafts is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick. His many publications include The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today (2013), co-edited with Peter Fearon, Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain (2007), co-edited with Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell, and British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution (1985).

Summary

To what extent has the British economy declined compared to its competitors and what are the underlying reasons for this decline? Nicholas Crafts, one of the world's foremost economic historians, tackles these questions in a major new account of Britain's long-run economic performance.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Crafts, Nicholas (University of Warwick) Crafts, Crafts Nicholas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108438162
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43816-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Wirtschaftswachstum, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Wirtschaftssysteme und -strukturen, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History