Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850 : A preliminary survey, report of a conference held the University of Sheffield, 5-7 January 1969

ISBN-13: 9780415378529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 200 str.

J. P. Higgins; Sidney Pollard; J. E. Ginarlis

Opis

These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors. Each paper is accompanied by a summary of the discussion which followed.

The problems encountered in such an undertaking are examined, a major one being definition: what to include in the term 'capital', how to measure or isolate expenditure under that heading, and how to deal with changes which have made the definitions and practices of present-day national income estimates inapplicable to earlier centuries. Sources are also examined in depth as statistical information is not only uncertain and often unreliable, but of different value and completeness for different sectors of the economy.

This book was first published in 1971.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Modern Practices and Conventions in Measuring Capital Formation in National Accounts 2. The Compilation of Gross Domestic Fixed Capital Formation Statistics, 1856-1913 3. Fixed Capital Formation in the British Cotton Manufacturing Industry 4. Capital Formation in Transport in Britain 5. Capital Formation in Agriculture

O autorze

Pollard, S.; Higgins, J.P.P