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The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of
organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change
was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to
the radically new environment.
An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a
substantial contribution to the understanding of the growth and
development of the British economy in one of its most dramatic
phases.
Philip Cottrell has written an impressively documented full-scale
survey of this crucial period, discussing finance in the context of
sweeping reforms of company law, unprecedented technological change
and economic expansion, and the institutional effects of all of
these. He is primarily concerned with English manufacturing
industry but frequently refers, by way of comparison, to extractive
industry, Scottish and Welsh developments and the economies of
other West European countries. As well as providing a comprehensive
overview, the book pays particular attention to coal, iron and
textiles amongst the industries and, at the level of organization,
to the emergence of the joint stock limited liability company and
its gradual adoption by industrialists. The relationship between
commercial banks and manufacturing receives detailed consideration
and the role of internally accumulated funds and trade credit is
discussed. this classic book was first published in 1980.
The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of
organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change
was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to
the radically new environment. An appreciation of the history of
these developments makes a substantial contribution to the
understanding of the growth and development of the British economy
in one of its most dramatic phases. Philip Cottrell has written an
impressively documented full-scale survey of this crucial period,
discussing finance in the context of sweeping reforms of company
law, unprecedented technological change and economic expansion, and
the institutional effects of all of these. He is primarily
concerned with English manufacturing industry but frequently
refers, by way of comparison, to extractive industry, Scottish and
Welsh developments and the economies of other West European
countries. As well as providing a comprehensive overview, the book
pays particular attention to coal, iron and textiles amongst the
industries and, at the level of organization, to the emergence of
the joint stock limited liability company and its gradual adoption
by industrialists. The relationship between commercial banks and
manufacturing receives detailed consideration and the role of
internally accumulated funds and trade credit is discussed. this
classic book was first published in 1980.
This volume is the proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 118 on
"Instrumentation. and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes,"
where small telescopes were defined as those ground-based
instruments with apertures less than 1.5m. The scientific goal of
the symposium was to emphasise research programmes which were more
suited to smaller tele scopes, on which frequent regular
observations can be made. A wide variety of topics on
instrumentation, photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry of
objects in the solar system to extragalactic systems were
discussed. Each of the four scientific days of the symposium
comprised a number of invited review papers, contributed oral
papers and discussion sessions devoted purely to the large number (
4) of poster papers. An introductory paper on the research
potential of small telescopes sets the scene for the symposium. The
proceedings have then been divided into three sections. Section I:
Telescopes and instrumentation; Section II: Photometric research
programmes; Section III: Spectroscopic research programmes. The
diversity of topics within each of these sections indicated the
extent to which small telescopes have (and can) contribute greatly
to astronomical research. Dr J.A. Graham's summary of the
symposium, which illustrates the opportunities available with small
telescopes, concludes these proceedings. As in all symposia, the
importance of the discussion following each paper was realised. The
discussion was recorded on tape (and wherever possible on questions
and answer sheets), transcribed and then edited."
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