Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain - Essays in Historical Economics

Informationen zum Autor McCloskey, D. N. Zusammenfassung The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed. The book is structured as follows: Part One: The Method of Historical Economics Part Two: Enterprise in Late Victorian Britain Part Three: Britain in the World Economy, 1846-1913. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE 1. The Achievements of the Cliometric School 2. Does the Past Have Useful Economics? PART TWO 3. From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur (with Lars G. Sandberg) 4. International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain before World War I (with an exchange with David Landes) 5. Did Victorian Britain Fail? 6. Controversies · McCloskey on Victorian Growth: A Comment (by Derek H. Aldcroft) · Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder to Derek Aldcroft · A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It · Victorian Britain Did Fail (by N.F.R. Crafts) · No It Did Not: A Reply to Crafts PART THREE 7. From Dependence to Autonym: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth 8. Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881 9. Britain's Loss From Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate 10. How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913 (with J. Richard Zecher)

Product details

• Authors: D. N. Mccloskey, McCloskey D. N.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9780415607056
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60705-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909