Format:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415313056
,
9781134558278
Content:
The essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War
Note:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Barry Supple -- Preface -- PART ONE THE METHOD OF HISTORICAL ECONOMICS -- 1 The Achievements of the Cliometric School -- 2 Does the Past Have Useful Economics? -- PART TWO ENTERPRISE IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN -- 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 BRITAIN IN THE WORLD ECONOMY, 1846-1913 -- 7 From Dependence to Autonomy: 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) -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version McCloskey, D. N. Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415313056
Language:
English
Keywords:
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