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Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850 2000

British Performance in International Perspective
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
432 Seiten
Englisch
Cambridge University Presserschienen am12.11.2009
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.mehr
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KlappentextNow 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-521-12314-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2009
Erscheinungsdatum12.11.2009
Seiten432 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht697 g
Artikel-Nr.14932639
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GenreWirtschaft

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and overview; Part I. Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance: 2. The contribution of services to the productivity performance of the whole economy; 3. Comparative productivity performance in market services; 4. A sectoral data base: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990; Part II. Explaining Comparative Productivity Performance: 5. Technology, organisational change and the industrialisation of services; 6. Investment in physical and human capital; 7. Competition and the institutional framework; Part III. Reassessing the Performance of British Market Services: 8. The 'golden age' of British commerce, 1850-1914; 9. The collapse of the liberal world economic order, 1914-50; 10. Completing the industrialisation of services, 1950-90; 11. British services in the 1990s: a preliminary assessment; 12. Summary and conclusions; Bibliography.mehr

Autor

Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His recent books include The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective (1997) and, as editor with Mark Harrison, The Economics of World War I (2005).