The victorian economy / François Crouzet ; translated by Anthony Forster.
Britain's role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world's greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors. In this study François Crouzet a...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 A macroeconomic survey; 1 THE DEMOGRAPHIC BOOM; 2 ECONOMIC GROWTH; Long-term growth of national product; The growth of product per capita; The growth of the economy's main sectors; 3 THE PERIODIZATION OF GROWTH; A simple picture; Quantitative data; The Mid-Victorian boom; The Great Depression; Business cycles; 4 STRUCTURAL CHANGE; Agriculture, industry and services; Large and small firms; Urbanization; 5 PROBLEMS OF GROWTH; About laissez-faire; Overseas trade and growth; The problem of free trade.
- Capital formationDemography and economic growth; Part 2 Sectoral studies; 6 AGRICULTURE; On the Agricultural Revolution; Depression and recovery; The golden age; The depression; Landowning and farming; 7 THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES; The structure of British industry; The cotton industry; The woollen and worsted industries; Other textile industries; The chemical industry; 8 IRON, STEEL AND COAL; Iron and steel; Engineering and the secondary metal industries; Coal; 9 STEAM AND THE TRANSPORT REVOLUTION; 'The Early Railway Age' (J.H. Clapham); The railways from 1851 to 1914.
- Railways and economic growthThe triumph of the steamship; 10 BANKS AND CREDIT; The banking system up to 1844; Banks after 1844; The financing of economic growth; 11 FOREIGN TRADE AND THE EXPORT OF CAPITAL; Britain's overseas trade; Invisible earnings and foreign investment; 12 EPILOGUE -THE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH ECONOMY?; The slow-down in growth; Great Britain overtaken; Technology and productivity; Economic interpretation; The burden of the past; About entrepreneurs; Science and education; bibliography; Index.