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Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850–2000: British Performance in International Perspective: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series

Autor Stephen Broadberry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2009
Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years. Whereas in the mid-nineteenth century Britain had higher productivity than the United States and Germany, by 1990 both countries had overtaken Britain. The key to achieving high productivity was the 'industrialisation' of market services, which involved both the serving of business and the provision of mass-market consumer services in a more business like fashion. Comparative productivity varied with the uneven spread of industrialised service sector provision across sectors. Stephen Broadberry provides a quantitative overview of these trends, together with a qualitative account of developments within individual sectors, including shipping, railways, road and air transport, telecommunications, wholesale and retail distribution, banking, and finance.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521123143
ISBN-10: 0521123143
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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; Bibliography.

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'The book's great achievement is to force us to refocus our thinking.' Contemporary European History

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A major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years.