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PART ONE: BRITAIN AND THE ATLANTIC ECONOMY
1. The American Tariff, British Exporst and American Iron Production, 1840-1860, Stanley Engerman
2. Demographic determinants of British and American building cycles, 1870-1913, Brinley Thomas
PART TWO: THE FUNCTIONING OF THE CAPITAL MARKET
3. Rigidity and bias in the British capital market, 1870-1913, Michael Edelstein
4. British controls on long term capital movements, 1924-1931, D.E. Moggridge
PART THREE: 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
6. The shift from sailing ships to steamships, 1850-1890: a study in technological change and its diffusion, Charles K. Harley
7. Yardsticks for Victorian entrepreneurs, Peter H. Lindert and Keith Trace
8. International differences in productivity? Coal and steel in America and Britain before World War I, Deirdre McCloskey
PART FOUR: 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
10. Nihilistic impressions of British railway history, Wray Vamplew
11. Railway passenger traffic in 1865, Gary Hawke
12. Some thoughts on the papers and discussion on the performance of the late Victorian economy, S. Berrick Saul
PART FIVE: THE FUTURE OF THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY IN BRITAIN
13. Is the new economic history an export product?, Jonathan R. T. Hughes
14. Is the new economic history an export product? A comment on J.R.T. Hughes, R.M. Hartwell
15. Can the new economic history become an import substitute?, Barry Supple
16. The new economic history in Britain: a comment on the papers by Hughes, Hartwell and Supple, R.C.O. Matthews
General discussion on the future of the new economic history in Britain
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reviewed Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the Mathematical Social Science Board Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, Held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970 on November 18, 2016
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the Mathematical Social Science Board Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930, Held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September 1970
The author puts forth an interesting and simple argument that when faced with an economic crisis, authoritarian regimes (although I suppose democratic regimes can also be included) abide by the "political logic" of implementing adjustment policies to retain the support of their core supporters, be they fixed capital, mobile capital or labour. But when a regime's core supporters consist of different factions and are divided on what policies they prefer, the regime will not be able to satisfy its core supporters (or at least a part of them), start to lose support and possibly collapse.
It is perhaps evident that this book is intended as academic literature, in view of how several parts of it are on the author's research methodology and logic. In fact, one chapter actually discussed in some detail on how the author did a regressive analysis to get more generalised findings!
However, if one skips through the academic language, this book is still quite readable for a general public audience.
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