New perspectives on the late Victorian economy : essays in quantitative economic history, 1860-1914 /
Through channels both open and concealed, the Victorian economy continues to influence us powerfully. Much economic thinking today gains support from perceptions of how the nineteenth-century British economy worked and how well it satisfied wants. Contemporary oligopolistic industrial structure is c...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- Quantitative analysis of the Victorian economy / James Foreman-Peck
- Historical trends in international patterns of technological innovation / John Cantwell
- Railways and late Victorian economic growth / James Foreman-Peck. Appendix: Data for the total factor productivity calculation. Appendix: Derivation of the steady state response of income per head to railway technology
- Emergence of gas and water monopolies in nineteenth-century Britain : contested markets and public control / Bob Millward
- The expansion of British multinational companies : testing for managerial failure / Stephen Nicholas
- A new look at the cost of living 1870-1914 / Charles Feinstein
- Poor Law statistics and the geography of economic distress / Humphrey Southall
- Perfect equilibrium down the pit / John G. Treble. Appendix: The bargaining model
- Money, interest rates and the Great Depression : Britain from 1870 to 1913 / Forrest H. Capie, Terence C. Mills and Geoffrey E. Wood
- The UK demand for money, commercial bills and quasi-money assets, 1871-1913 / Paul Turner. Appendix: Econometric techniques. Appendix: Data
- An analysis of Bank of England discount and advance behaviour 1870-1914 / Tessa Ogden.
