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Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840 - Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930 (Paperback)
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Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840 - Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930 (Paperback)
Series: Economic History
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These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new
economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is
accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The
participants of the conference represented a broad range of
scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The first eleven papers
deal with a variety of topics covering a period from 1840 to the
1920s. They focus on the performance of the British economy, and
especially its businessmen, during the time of Britain's industrial
maturity and relative decline. The papers and discussions reached a
novel conclusion tha, contrary to commonly held opinion, the
British economy performed well and that British businessmen were
not lacking in entrepreneurial vigour compared with their German or
American counterparts. But even more important for British
historiography than this finding was the demonstration that
economic and statistical methods can be applied successfully to the
study of economic history. The papers in the concluding section
discuss the origins and development of the new economic history and
show that, as a substantial supplement to work along more
traditional lines, its methods and application are both desirable
and possible. This collection serves as an interesting report of
research into a key period in British history, and also as a useful
introductory account of the new economic history in the United
Kingdom. This book was first published in 1971.
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