New perspectives on the late Victorian economy : essays in quantitative economic history, 1860-1914 / edited by James Foreman-Peck
1991, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #381947
ISBN: 0521391075
Physical description: 353 pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographies and index. English. 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.
Subjects: Geschichte 1860-1914. Geschichte 1860-1914. Monetary policy Great Britain History. Politique monétaire Grande-Bretagne Histoire. 15.70 history of Europe. Economic history. Monetary policy. Aufsatzsammlung. Wirtschaft. Economische geschiedenis. Monetaire politiek. Monetary policy Great Britain History. Politique monétaire Grande-Bretagne Histoire. Industrie Grande-Bretagne Statistiques. Politique monétaire Grande-Bretagne 1870-1914. Monetary policy Great Britain History. Industrial organization Great Britain History. Monetary policy Great Britain History. Great Britain Economic conditions 19th century Congresses Great Britain Economic conditions 20th century Congresses. Economic History. Economic Conditions. History. 19th Century. Quantitative Analysis. Great Britain Economic conditions 19th century. Great Britain Economic conditions 20th century. Great Britain Economic conditions. Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques 19e siècle. Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques 20e siècle. Great Britain.
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