Financing Cotton
Financing Cotton

Author: Steven Toms

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 178327509X

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This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.

Nassau Senior and Classical Economics
Nassau Senior and Classical Economics

Author: Marian Bowley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1136507590

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"one of the best contributions to the history of economic thought during recent years" P. M. Rosenstein-Rodan Nassau Senior is one of the most significant economists in the classical tradition. This study is based both on his unpublished and published lectures and writings. Part 1 illustrates Senior's outstanding contribution in synthesizing the various developments of Adam Smith's theories that took place during the first part of the nineteenth century. Part 2 examines Senior's opinions and influence on social and economic policy, in particular his connection with the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.

Churchmen and the Condition of England 1832-1885
Churchmen and the Condition of England 1832-1885

Author: G Kitson Clark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1000639444

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First published in 1973, this work demonstrates how the English churchmen of the nineteenth century moved from a firmly entrenched position in the old social hierarchy to a less definable and insecure position under the rule of the collectivist State run by a professional workforce. Dr Kitson Clark explores the many questions po