New Perspectives on the Late Victorian Economy: Essays in Quantitative Economic History, 1860-1914 Book

List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface;

1. Quantitative analysis of the Victorian economy James Foreman-Peck;

Part I. Technology and Industrial Organisation:
2. Historical trends in international patterns of technological innovation John Cantwell;
3. Railways and late Victorian economic growth James Foreman-Peck;
4. Emergence of gas and water monopolies in nineteenth-century Britain: contested markets and public control Bob Milward;
5. The expansion of British multinational companies: testing for managerial failure Stephen Nicholas;

Part II. Distribution:
6. A new look at the cost of living 1870-1914 Charles Feinstein;
7. Poor law statistics and the geography of economic distress Humphrey Southall;
8. Perfect equilibrium down the pit John G. Treble;

Part III. The Monetary System and Monetary Policy:
9. Money, interest rates and the Great Depression: Britain from 1870 to 1913 Forrest H. Capie, Terence C. Mills and Geoffrey E. Wood;
10. The UK demand for money, commercial bills and quasi-money assets, 1871-1913 Paul Turner;
11. An analysis of Bank of England discount and advance behaviour 1870-1914 Tessa Ogden; Index.