Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840

Published by Princeton University Press 1972

Essays on a Mature Economy

Britain After 1840

Edited by: Donald N. McCloskey

Volume 1522 in the series Quantitative Studies in History

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400870165

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Debating the promises and limits of the "new economic history," seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of her industrial dominance in 1840 to her eclipse by the surging economies of Germany and the United States. Their discussion brings a new methodological challenge to the field of economic history and a new interpretation of the British economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Originally published in 1972.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
The Mathematical Social Science Board Robert W. Fogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Participants of the Conference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Editor's Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Britain and the Atlantic Economy
1. The American tariff, British exports and American iron production, 1840-1860 Stanley Engerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Demographic determinants of British and American building cycles, 1870-1913 Brinley Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
II. The Functioning of the Capital Market
3. Rigidity and bias in the British capital market, 1870-1913 Michael Edelstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
4. British controls on long term capital movements, 1924-1931 D. E. Moggridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
III. Economic Efficiency and the Choice of Technique
5. The landscape and the machine: technical interrelatedness, land tenure and the mechanization of the corn harvest in Victorian Britain Paul A. David Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. The shift from sailing ships to steamships, 1850-1890: a study in technological change and its diffusion Charles K. Harley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
7. Yardsticks for Victorian entrepreneurs Peter H. Lindert and Keith Trace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
8. International differences in productivity? Coal and steel in America and Britain before World War I Donald N. McCloskey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
IV. Problems of Measuring Productivity: The Capital Goods and Service Sectors
9. Changes in the productivity of labour in the British machine tool industry, 1856-1900 Roderick Floud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
10. Nihilistic impressions of British railway history Wray Vamplew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
11. Railway passenger traffic in 1865 Gary Hawke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
12. Some thoughts on the papers and discussion on the performance of the late Victorian economy S. Berrick Saul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
V. The Future of the New Economic History in Britain
13. Is the new economic history an export product? Jonathan R. T. Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
14 Is the new economic history an export product? A comment on J. R. T. Hughes R. M. Hartwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
15. Can the new economic history become an import substitute? Barry Supple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
16. The new economic history in Britain: a comment on the papers by Hughes, Hartwell and Supple R. C. O. Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
General discussion on the future of the new economic history in Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435