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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/815536609 Title: Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000 : British Performance in International Perspective. Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2006. ISBN/ISSN: 128108591X 9781281085917 0511348967 9780511348969 9780511495748 0511495749 9780521867184 0521867185 9780521123143 0521123143 OCLC:815536609

  
  

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Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000 : British Performance in International Perspective.

Author:	Broadberry, Stephen.
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press 2006.
Series:	Cambridge studies in economic history., Second series.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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  Read more...
Subjects	Service industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Service industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Industrial productivity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. View all subjects
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