Movements of the British Iron and Steel Industry, 1720 to 1951
Movements of the British Iron and Steel Industry, 1720 to 1951

Author: Howard G. Roepke

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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This study was undertaken to analyse the overall and current distribution of the industry and the reasons for that distribution and to determine future changes in distribution. In tracing the distribution of the British iron and steel industry over two and a half centuries, one notes both the constant movement of the industry in response to factors affecting its location and reluctance to change location or techniques even after the advantages of change become apparent.

Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850
Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850

Author: S. Pollard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1136587624

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These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors. Each paper is accompanied by a summary of the discussion which followed. The problems encountered in such an undertaking are examined, a major one being definition: what to include in the term 'capital', how to measure or isolate expenditure under that heading, and how to deal with changes which have made the definitions and practices of present-day national income estimates inapplicable to earlier centuries. Sources are also examined in depth as statistical information is not only uncertain and often unreliable, but of different value and completeness for different sectors of the economy. This book was first published in 1971.