Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His recent books include The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective (1997) and, as editor with Mark Harrison, The Economics of World War I (2005).
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction and overview
Part I. Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance: 2. The contribution of services to the productivity performance of the whole economy
3. Comparative productivity performance in market services
4. A sectoral data base: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990
Part II. Explaining Comparative Productivity Performance: 5. Technology, organisational change and the industrialisation of services
6. Investment in physical and human capital
7. Competition and the institutional framework
Part III. Reassessing the Performance of British Market Services: 8. The 'golden age' of British commerce, 1850-1914
9. The collapse of the liberal world economic order, 1914-50
10. Completing the industrialisation of services, 1950-90
11. British services in the 1990s: a preliminary assessment
12. Summary and conclusions
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