This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Theme Leader at CAGE and Director of the Economic History Programme at CEPR. He has also taught at the Universities of Warwick, Oxford and Cardiff and held visiting positions at the University of British Columbia, the University of California, Berkeley, Humboldt University, Berlin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo and the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests include the development of the world economy from 1000 AD to the present; historical national accounts for Britain since 1086; the Great Divergence of productivity and living standards between Europe and Asia; sectoral aspects of comparative growth and productivity performance during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; productivity in services; wars and economic performance. He is currently Editor of the Economic History Review, and has previously been Editor of the European Review of Economic History. He has been President of the European Historical Economics Society and is currently a Trustee of the Economic History Association and the Asian Historical Economics Society, and an Executive Committee Member of the Economic History Society. His books include The British Economy between the Wars: A Macroeconomic Survey (1986); The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1850-1990 (Cambridge, 1997); Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: British Performance in International Perspective (Cambridge, 2006) and the 2-volume Cambridge Economic History of Europe, edited with Kevin O'Rourke (Cambridge, 2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Measuring Economic Growth Section 1. Population Part II. Analysing Economic Growth Section 1. Real-Wage-Rates and GDP Per Head.
