The Economics Of The Industrial Revolution Routledge Revivals

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136668432

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The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals) by Joel Mokyr Pdf

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have sought to resolve some of the controversies surrounding this topic. First published in 1985, this collection contains ten key essays written by leading economists on the subject of the Industrial Revolution. Among the questions discussed are the causes for the pre-eminence of Britain, the roles of the inputs for growth (capital, labor, technical progress), the importance of demand factors, the relation between agricultural progress and the Industrial Revolution, and the standard of living debate. The essays demonstrate that the application of fresh viewpoints to the literature has given us a considerable new body of data at our disposal, making it possible to test commonly held hypotheses. In addition, this new data has enabled economists to apply a more rigorous logic to the thinking about the Industrial Revolution, thus sharpening many issues heretofore blurred by slipshod methodology and internal inconsistencies.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1193397829

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The Economics of the Industrial Revolution by Joel Mokyr Pdf

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136668425

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The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals) by Joel Mokyr Pdf

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have sought to resolve some of the controversies surrounding this topic. First published in 1985, this collection contains ten key essays written by leading economists on the subject of the Industrial Revolution. Among the questions discussed are the causes for the pre-eminence of Britain, the roles of the inputs for growth (capital, labor, technical progress), the importance of demand factors, the relation between agricultural progress and the Industrial Revolution, and the standard of living debate. The essays demonstrate that the application of fresh viewpoints to the literature has given us a considerable new body of data at our disposal, making it possible to test commonly held hypotheses. In addition, this new data has enabled economists to apply a more rigorous logic to the thinking about the Industrial Revolution, thus sharpening many issues heretofore blurred by slipshod methodology and internal inconsistencies.

Author : John F. Henry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415618731

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The Making of Neoclassical Economics by John F. Henry Pdf

First published in 1990, this unique explanation of the rise of neoclassical economics views social change as an engine promoting change in theory. It attempts to develop a theory of the origins, consolidation and rise to dominance of the neoclassical school of thought. In so doing, it addresses the contest between the labour and utility theories of value; both are placed in historical context, and reasons are offered for the relative success of each in particular historical periods. It is argued that the eventual dominance of neoclassicism, a theory based on the social changes then taking place, resulted not from its scientific superiority but from its non-social perspective which ignores the social order upon which it depends.

Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136464393

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The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals) by Peter Mathias Pdf

First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are his principal scholarly concern. This series of essays is divided into two groups. The first group of essays focuses upon general themes such as the 'uniqueness' in Europe of the industrial revolution, capital formation, taxation, the growth of skills, science and technical change, leisure and wages, and diagnoses of poverty. In the second section, Professor Mathias focuses on the social structure in the eighteenth century, considering the industrialization of brewing, coinage, agriculture and the drink industries, advances in public health and the armed forces, British and American public finance in the War of Independence, Dr Johnson and the business world.

Author : W. Arthur Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135229894

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Growth and Fluctuations 1870-1913 (Routledge Revivals) by W. Arthur Lewis Pdf

In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration from Europe, India and China, and large-scale international investment. The book contrasts the relationship between prices, industrial fluctuations, agricultural output, and the stock of monetary gold, considering both the varying patterns of leading economies and then their net combined effect on the rest of the world. This is history which illuminates the contemporary economic climate in which it was written but also casts light upon our current economic crisis.

Author : John Girling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136921346

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Capital and Power (Routledge Revivals) by John Girling Pdf

First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of ‘specificity’, general theory and social change. This is followed by an assessment of the stages of economic development in relation to state power and politics; and the role of the ‘external’: the impact of the world market economy and the security imperative. The book is not a discussion of theory, but of theory-in-practice. Above all, it represents a continuing debate between Marxism and pluralism – on the themes of accumulation, power, legitimacy – resulting in convergence.

Author : Ian Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136447983

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Economics and Demography (Routledge Revivals) by Ian Bowen Pdf

First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation. Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic and statistical aspects of population and world development, provides a survey of the population of the world, and of how political economists have explained population growth. The author’s survey looks first at the mechanisms of growth – fertility, mortality, and migration – followed by an account of theories of growth from Adam Smith to the present day. Professor Bowen, a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, who taught at universities in England, America, Australia and Asia, writes from the point of view of a political economist rather than a demographer, and Economics and Demography is of particular value to students of development, development economics and demography within departments of economics, economic history and geography.

Author : A.J.H. Latham,B L Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317231981

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The Market in History (Routledge Revivals) by A.J.H. Latham,B L Anderson Pdf

First published in 1986. The free market is often associated with liberty and individualism, and this connection has been made for more centuries than is generally realised. This essays collected in this book trace the development, importance and influence of the market as a dominating component of the shared human life from classical antiquity to the present. The authors, from various backgrounds, keep constantly in view the moral and political questions raised by the role of markets, as well as laying out succinctly what can be known or deduced about the actual operation of the market in Western and other cultures. This book will be of interest to students of economics and history.

Author : Patrick O'Brien,Caglar Keyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136629402

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Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals) by Patrick O'Brien,Caglar Keyder Pdf

First published in 1978, Professor O’Brien’s Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French retardation in the 19th century and as a brave and important contribution towards the understanding of economic growth in Western Europe. The author attempts to comprehend and evaluate the economic performance of France through explicit comparisons with Britain, while considering British economic history from a French perspective. Challenging the orthodox view that France lagged behind Britain in economic terms, the book argues that there were two paths of economic growth to the 20th century, with France’s path seen as a more humane and no less efficient transition to industrial society.

Author : Jonathan Boswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317671565

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The Rise and Decline of Small Firms (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Boswell Pdf

First published in 1973, this title examines the development patterns of small businesses. It considers why people found firms; the factors that contribute to entrepreneurial success; problems of management succession and inheritance; the strengths and weaknesses of family firms; the reasons why small firms are taken over; and the social, economic and managerial context of their growth, decline, and revival. Based on a survey of sixty-four firms, each employing fewer than five hundred people, in engineering, hosiery, and knitwear, and on the records of 370 similar organisations, a striking gap in performance and management attitudes emerges as between dynamic, mostly founder-run firms and stagnant, mostly inherited ones. Where many books are either minutely specialised or highly abstract and over-generalised, Jonathan Boswell’s work is practical and diagnostic, probing the inner recesses of the small firm sector. With particular relevance to the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs in today’s economic environment, this title advances selective measures to deal with old firms and inheritance, and a wide range of policies to encourage new entrepreneurship.

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135909567

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The Evolution of Modern Capitalism (Routledge Revivals) by J. A. Hobson Pdf

Hobson’s The Evolution of Modern Capitalism was first published in 1894, although this reissue is of the fourth edition, published in 1926. The work traces the developments in trade and industry which characterised the first decades of the twentieth century. In the first part, Hobson deals with the origins and structure of modern capitalism, including the development of the machine industry, the changing structure of trades and markets, and the effects of these on workers and consumers. The final supplementary chapter considers the impact of World War I on this changing economy, and the ‘disturbance, recovery and readjustments’ which the war necessitated. This is a classic work of importance to economic historians and those with a particular interest in the history of capitalism.

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135961572

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The Industrial System (Routledge Revivals) by J. A. Hobson Pdf

First published in 1909 and reissued in 1910, J. A. Hobson’s The Industrial System provides a complex analysis of distribution and consumption. Offering a critique of contemporary capitalism whilst accepting the superiority of the free market, the book includes an exploration of areas such as cost and surplus, supply and demand and the labour movement. This is an important work by one of the most important economic thinkers of the twentieth century, which will be of particular interest to modern economic historians.

Author : Graeme Snooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134839063

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Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary? by Graeme Snooks Pdf

Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary? takes an innovative look at this much studied subject. The contributors ask new questions, explore new issues and use new data in order to stimulate interest and elicit new responses. By looking at it from such previously unexplored angles the book brings a new understanding to the Industrial Revolution and opens a new debate.

Author : Thomas Brinley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134896035

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The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy by Thomas Brinley Pdf

In recent years it has become commonplace to downplay notions of an industrial revolution and argue instead that Britain's transformation was gradual and incremental. In The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy Brinley Thomas contests this view, arguing that change in the energy base and hence in technology has enabled Britain to overcome an energy crisis and sustain dramatic population growth. Throughout these essays illustrate the organic approach to economic growth that Brinley Thomas pioneered.