Steve N. Broadberry

The Productivity Race

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comparative reassessment of British performance in manufacturing since 1850.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 921g
• ISBN-13: 9780521584401
• ISBN-10: 052158440X
• Artikelnr.: 21833426

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction and overview
Part I. Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance: 2. International comparisons of productivity in manufacturing: benchmark estimates by industry
3. Labour productivity in aggregate manufacturing: Britain, the United States and Germany
4. Extending the picture: manufacturing productivity in other industrialised countries
5. Manufacturing and the whole economy
Part II. Explaining Comparative Productivity Performance: 6. Technology
7. Economic geography: markets and natural resources
8. Accumulation of physical and human capital
9. Competition and adjustment
Part III. Reassessing the Performance of British Industry: 10. The rise of competition from abroad, 1850-1914
11. War and depression, 1914-50
12. Changing markets and technology, 1950-90
13. Concluding comments
Bibliography
Index.