Product Description: This book examines the insights that Keynesian macroeconomics offers into the economic history of the prewar British economy. It adopts a modern economic approach to issues such as unemployment, the price level and exchange rates in the period 1870-1939, making use of the latest advances in time series analysis and macroeconomics...read more

Product Description: This volume reflects the progress made in the last decade in quantitative economic history with major improvements in the quality of analysis and the amassing of research findings. A wide range of topics are disseminated, falling into four main areas: labor and industrial economics, as well as money and macroeconomics...read more

Product Description: Recent developments in economic analysis are employed in this volume to re-examine the years of Britain's relative economic decline. The book is organized thematically rather than chronologically, and has separate chapters on all the major macro and microeconomic aspects of recent developments in the British economy...read more

Product Description: In recent years, traditional views of a rapidly growing British economy between 1700 and 1850 have been overturned by convincing new research indicating that British economic growth was, in fact, relatively slow during much of the so-called industrial "revolution"...read more