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"?

British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution
British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution

Author: N. F. R. Crafts

Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13:

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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". This revisionist work, which is certain to profoundly affect any future scholarship on the subject, is the first to give a fully documented account of the new picture of British economic development that has recently emerged. Bringing together the results of the latest research, Crafts explores how the new growth estimates hold vital implications for our understanding of productivity, living standards, structural change, and international trade in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.

International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies
International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies

Author: John Berdell

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781843765615

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"This work will be of great interest to both historians of economic ideas and economists concerned with modelling the interactions between growth and international trade."--BOOK JACKET.

The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Author: W. E. Minchinton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 100087995X

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Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. This expansion of commerce made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialization are reviewed at length in the substantial introduction.

How it all Began (Routledge Revivals)
How it all Began (Routledge Revivals)

Author: W. W. Rostow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1317805623

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First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished. W. W. Rostow brings together issues of public policy, international trade and the world of science and technology, arguing that conventional economic thought has failed to relate scientific innovation to the economic process. Chapters consider the politics of modernization, the Commercial Revolution and the development of the world economy between 1783 and 1820.

Atlantic Trade and the British Economy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Atlantic Trade and the British Economy: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Author: Oxford University Press

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 0199808201

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

British Economic Growth, 1270–1870
British Economic Growth, 1270–1870

Author: Stephen Broadberry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-01-22

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1107070783

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This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.

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.

The Growth of the International Economy, 1820-1960
The Growth of the International Economy, 1820-1960

Author: A. G. Kenwood

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1971-01-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780873951371

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Here is an introduction to the study of the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing modern economic growth between nations. It is divided into three parts, of which the first examines the workings of the system in the years before 1914. This includes an analysis of the conditions favorable to the growth of international economic relations during the period, examines the changing character of the international flows of labor, capital and trade, and surveys contemporary commercial and international monetary policies. This first part concludes with a chapter analyzing the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing economic growth, and another chapter examining the nature of the economic trends and fluctuations associated with this phase in the growth of the international economic system. The second part gives an account of the collapse of the international economy during the interwar years, and traces the causes of collapse to changes in the structure and functioning of the system brought about by World War I and the depression of the 1930s. The final part takes the story beyond World War II. It describes the wartime and post-war efforts to reconstruct the international economic system, and examines the working of the new system in the period after 1945, bringing out both its strengths and its weaknesses.