International Trade and British Economic Growth
International Trade and British Economic Growth

Author: Peter Mathias

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1997-07-07

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780631181163

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This book explores the relationship between international trade and domestic economic growth in Britain since the eighteenth century. It was during this time that Britain enjoyed first a dominant role in world trade and then, from the outbreak of the First World War, saw its economic strength eclipsed by other emerging international powers. The essays here focus on two central concerns in the history of British economic development in the period; was overseas and colonial trade in the eighteenth century the principal motor of British industrial development? Has the structure of Britain's overseas trade in the twentieth century been one of the factors contributing to the "decline of the British industrial economy"?

Britain in the World Economy since 1880
Britain in the World Economy since 1880

Author: Bernard W.E. Alford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1317872819

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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.