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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: | Broadberry, Stephen. |
ISBN: | 128108591X 9781281085917 0511348967 9780511348969 9780511495748 0511495749 9780521867184 0521867185 9780521123143 0521123143 |
OCLC Number: | 815536609 |
Description: | 1 online resource (430 pages) |
Contents: | Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction and overview; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Comparative productivity in services; 1.3 Technology and organisation; 1.4 Sectoral studies; 1.5 Conclusions; 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 database: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990; Appendix 4.1: Source and methods for sectoral time series. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in economic history., Second series. |
Abstract:
A major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years. Stephen Broadberry provides 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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