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The productivity race : British manufacturing in international perspective 1850-1990 / S.N. Broadberry

Author
Broadberry, S. N.
Published
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxv, 451 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
1. Introduction and overview -- pt. 1. Measuring comparative productivity performance. 2. International comparisons of productivity in manufacturing: benchmark estimates by industry. 3. Labour productivity in aggregate manufacturing: Britain, the United States and Germany. 4. Extending the picture: manufacturing productivity in other industrialised countries. 5. Manufacturing and the whole economy -- pt. 2. Explaining comparative productivity performance. 6. Technology. 7. Economic geography: markets and natural resources. 8. Accumulation of physical and human capital. 9. Competition and adjustment -- pt. 3. Reassessing the performance of British industry. 10. The rise of competition from abroad, 1850-1914.
Summary
This book is a reassessment of British performance in manufacturing since 1850 in the light of new evidence on international comparisons of productivity. Using a novel analytical framework of technological evolution, Stephen Broadberry uncovers new ways of looking at Britain's relative economic decline while debunking a number of misapprehensions regarding the nature and causes of the decline. It analyses productivity levels in Britain, the United States and Germany and provides detailed case studies of all the major manufacturing industries, broken down into three periods: 1850-1914, 1914-50 and 1950-90. Broadberry offers a wide coverage of industries, with invaluable country-specific information. By combining a multitude of detailed productivity measurements with qualitative industrial and business history, he provides a major contribution to our understanding of British economic performance over the last 150 years.
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ISBN
0511000189 (electronic bk.)
9780511000188 (electronic bk.)
9780521584401
052158440X
9780521023580
0521023580
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-431) and index.
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