Nicholas Crafts

Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back

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Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain's relative economic decline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424400
• ISBN-10: 1108424406
• Artikelnr.: 51382730

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Crafts is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick. His many publications include The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today (2013), co-edited with Peter Fearon, Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain (2007), co-edited with Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell, and British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution (1985).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The first Industrial Revolution
3. American overtaking
4. The interwar years: onwards and downwards
5. Falling behind in the Golden Age
6. From the Golden Age to the financial crisis
7. Concluding comments.