Essays on a Mature Economy : Britain After 1840 / Donald N. McCloskey
1971, 1st edition. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388457
ISBN: 0691051984
Physical description; 439 pp. Contents; The Mathematical Social Science Board / Fogel, Robert W. -- Preface -- Participants of the Conference -- Editor's Introduction -- I. Britain and the Atlantic Economy -- 1. The American tariff, British exports and American iron production, 1840-1860 / Engerman, Stanley -- 2. Demographic determinants of British and American building cycles, 1870-1913 / Thomas, Brinley -- II. The Functioning of the Capital Market -- 3. Rigidity and bias in the British capital market, 1870-1913 / Edelstein, Michael -- 4. British controls on long term capital movements, 1924-1931 / Moggridge, D. E. -- III. Economic Efficiency and the Choice of Technique -- 5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain / David, Paul A. -- 6. The shift from sailing ships to steamships, 1850-1890: a study in technological change and its diffusion / Harley, Charles K. -- 7. Yardsticks for Victorian entrepreneurs / Lindert, Peter H. / Trace, Keith -- 8. International differences in productivity? Coal and steel in America and Britain before World War I / McCloskey, Donald N. -- IV. Problems of Measuring Productivity: The Capital Goods and Service Sectors -- 9. Changes in the productivity of labour in the British machine tool industry, 1856-1900 / Floud, Roderick -- 10. Nihilistic impressions of British railway history / Vamplew, Wray -- 11. Railway passenger traffic in 1865 / Hawke, Gary -- 12. Some thoughts on the papers and discussion on the performance of the late Victorian economy / Saul, S. Berrick -- V. The Future of the New Economic History in Britain -- 13. Is the new economic history an export product? / Hughes, Jonathan R. T. -- 14 Is the new economic history an export product? A comment on J. R. T. Hughes / Hartwell, R. M. -- 15. Can the new economic history become an import substitute? / Supple, Barry -- 16. The new economic history in Britain: a comment on the papers by Hughes, Hartwell and Supple / Matthews, R. C. O. -- General discussion on the future of the new economic history in Britain. Subjects; New economic history of Britain. Economic conditions. Congresses. Social Sciences. Business.
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