Britain S Economy

Author : Perry Gauci
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780754697626

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Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850 by Perry Gauci Pdf

Inspired by recent research on the cultural impact of economic change, an international team of leading academics and younger scholars examine the ways in which state and society responded to fundamental economic transition. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. The book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain but significant relationship between the state and economic interests across the long eighteenth century.

Author : Alan Booth
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025264511

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The British Economy in the Twentieth Century by Alan Booth Pdf

It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise the proverbial 'knees-up' in a brewery; British workers are idle and greedy; its financial system is uniquely geared to the short term interests of the City rather than of manufacturing; its economic policies areperverse for industry; and its culture is fundamentally anti-industrial. There is a grain of truth in each of these statements, but only a grain. In this book, Alan Booth notes that Britain's living standards have definitely been overtaken, but evidence that Britain has fallen continuously further and further behindits major competitors is thin indeed. Although British manufacturing has been much criticised, it has performed comparatively better than the service sector. The British Economy in the Twentieth Century combines narrative with a conceptual and analytic approach to review British economic performance during the twentieth century in a controlled comparative framework. It looks at key themes, including economic growth and welfare, the working of the labour market, and the performance of entrepreneurs and managers. Alan Booth argues that a careful, balanced assessment (which must embrace the whole century rather than simply the post-war years) does not support the loud and persistent case for systematic failure in British management, labour, institutions, culture and economic policy. Relative decline has been much more modest, patchy and inevitable than commonly believed.

Author : Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038462

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson Pdf

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.

Author : Aubrey Jones
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052130816X

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Britain's Economy by Aubrey Jones Pdf

It has long been recognised that Britain has declined relatively to other countries, although there are differences of view both on the beginning of the decline and its causes. The author pinpoints two causes: first, a technological inferiority which has resulted in the country's exporting goods of poorer quality and importing goods of higher quality; secondly, the tendency for an upward pressure on incomes, from a society of political equals where each individual has expectations of a level of income reasonably comparable with others. The claims of different groups are easily accommodated in a semi-monopolistic industrial structure and are passed on in higher prices. Keynes recognised the latter problem of cost-push; but his intellectual revolution was not accompanied by a change of institutions, which continued to act in accordance with an earlier tradition. The present Government has reached a false diagnosis in ascribing the country's problems to too much money. It has therefore worsened the situation and weakened such hopes as there were of improvement.

Author : Richard Bailey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000906370

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Managing the British Economy by Richard Bailey Pdf

First published in 1968 Managing the British Economy attempts to trace the development of what has passed for economic planning in Britain in the 1960’s and, at the same time, to observe the activities of those engaged in the operation and the effect of their actions on business and industry. In writing this book, the author has had in mind the difficulties of businessmen in keeping track of ‘who does what’ in the Economy. Experience in industry and in the field of management education has shown him that managers often have difficulties in placing their own operations in the national context and he attempts here to help the reader understand how the system works in practice. How do the new arrangements tie in with the old? How does any government influence the running of the economy? What kind of system are we moving towards? This is a must read for scholars and researchers of British economy and economic history of Britain.

Author : Duncan Weldon
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0349144273

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Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through by Duncan Weldon Pdf

Author : Peter A. Hall
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195205235

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Governing the Economy by Peter A. Hall Pdf

Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782830955

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Something Will Turn Up by David Smith Pdf

As the prevailing winds of the global economy have changed, so Britain has been buffeted from boom to bust and back again. But how much is our country's economic landscape shaped by the huge forces of international capital - and the hope that 'something will turn up' - and how much by the individual men and women at the heart of our economic policy? David Smith forged his career as Britain's leading economic journalist during the country's traumatic transition from the 'workshop of the world' in the Midlands where he grew up, to an economy built on the sometimes shaky foundations of services and the City. Something Will Turn Up is his account of the chancellors, prime ministers, Bank of England governors and senior officials he has encountered and interviewed over the last five decades, and their impact on the realities of modern British life since the war. Smith leads us through the mire of government policy and long-term trends with wit and clarity to paint a vivid, personal picture of how we got to now - and where we might go from here.

Author : Alan Booth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403940254

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The British Economy in the Twentieth Century by Alan Booth Pdf

It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise the proverbial 'knees-up' in a brewery; British workers are idle and greedy; its financial system is uniquely geared to the short term interests of the City rather than of manufacturing; its economic policies areperverse for industry; and its culture is fundamentally anti-industrial. There is a grain of truth in each of these statements, but only a grain. In this book, Alan Booth notes that Britain's living standards have definitely been overtaken, but evidence that Britain has fallen continuously further and further behindits major competitors is thin indeed. Although British manufacturing has been much criticised, it has performed comparatively better than the service sector. The British Economy in the Twentieth Century combines narrative with a conceptual and analytic approach to review British economic performance during the twentieth century in a controlled comparative framework. It looks at key themes, including economic growth and welfare, the working of the labour market, and the performance of entrepreneurs and managers. Alan Booth argues that a careful, balanced assessment (which must embrace the whole century rather than simply the post-war years) does not support the loud and persistent case for systematic failure in British management, labour, institutions, culture and economic policy. Relative decline has been much more modest, patchy and inevitable than commonly believed.

Author : Peter Donaldson
Publisher : Baltimore : Penguin Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:$B237297

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Guide to the British Economy by Peter Donaldson Pdf

UK economy, its institutions and economic policy. Data cover monetary policy and fiscal policy, production of industries, domestic and foreign trade and employment policy. Discussion of reasons for sluggish economic growth and inadequate exports, outlining new attempts of economic planning. role of UK in economic integration of Europe. Economics. Tables. Bibliography pp. 249-250.

Author : Rex Pope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317884897

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The British Economy since 1914 by Rex Pope Pdf

An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the state of world markets, the effect of the two world wars and the importance of cultural attitudes towards industry.

Author : J. Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230372153

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Tackling Britain’s False Economy by J. Mills Pdf

The book analyses the failings of the British economy over the last two hundred years. It concludes that the main cause of its relatively poor performance has been inappropriate monetary and exchange rate policies. The damage these have done, especially to British manufacturing, has made the whole economy uncompetitive. Based on this analysis, the book then sets out an economic strategy designed to achieve much faster economic growth and a return to full employment, while containing inflation at acceptably low levels.

Author : Bernard W.E. Alford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317872818

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Britain in the World Economy since 1880 by Bernard W.E. Alford Pdf

Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and indecisive member of the European Community. He explores the relationship between empire and economy; looks at economic performance against economic policy; and compares Britain - through and beyond the Thatcher years - with her European partners, America and Japan. In assessing whether Britain's economic decline has been absolute or merely relative, he also illuminates the broader history of the world economy itself.

Author : Derek H. Aldcroft,Harry W. Richardson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1969-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349153466

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The British Economy 1870–1939 by Derek H. Aldcroft,Harry W. Richardson Pdf

Author : William Keegan
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785903939

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Nine Crises by William Keegan Pdf

A collapsing pound, spiralling oil prices, near-rationing of electricity... over the past half-century, Britain's economy has lurched from one crisis to another, though it somehow always survives or at least it has done until now. Veteran financial journalist William Keegan has seen it all, from the 1967 devaluation to the three-day week, from Black Wednesday to the global financial crash of 2007-08. In a career that has seen him hop from Fleet Street to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street and back again, he has nurtured connections with Chancellors of the Exchequer, Governors of the Bank of England, influential economists and Fleet Street legends. Now, in this lively and wide-ranging account, he takes us on a tumultuous journey through the past fifty years of our economic history and looks ahead to explain why Brexit poses the biggest existential threat the British economy has yet faced. Peppered with anecdotes and memories from the author's illustrious career, Nine Crises offers a fresh insight into Britain's past, present and future for economic expert and novice alike.