Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain : Essays in Historical Economics

ISBN-13: 9780415313056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 211 str.

Deirdre McCloskey

Opis

The essays in this work focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-19th century and the First World War.

Spis treści

PART ONE 1. The Achievements of the Cliometric School 2. Does the Past Have Useful Economics? PART TWO 3. From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur (with Lars G. Sandberg) 4. International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain before World War I (with an exchange with David Landes) 5. Did Victorian Britain Fail? 6. Controversies · McCloskey on Victorian Growth: A Comment (by Derek H. Aldcroft) · Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder to Derek Aldcroft · A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It · Victorian Britain Did Fail (by N.F.R. Crafts) · No It Did Not: A Reply to Crafts PART THREE 7. From Dependence to Autonym: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth 8. Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881 9. Britain's Loss From Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate 10. How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913 (with J. Richard Zecher)

O autorze

McCloskey, D. N.