03085oam 2200625I 450 991078658910332120230801225541.00-203-10871-X1-283-86203-41-136-26703-410.4324/9780203108710 (CKB)2670000000299327(EBL)1092766(OCoLC)823387043(SSID)ssj0000810918(PQKBManifestationID)11436568(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810918(PQKBWorkID)10833462(PQKB)11322400(MiAaPQ)EBC1092766(Au-PeEL)EBL1092766(CaPaEBR)ebr10632340(CaONFJC)MIL417453(OCoLC)823730584(EXLCZ)99267000000029932720180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe export of capital from Britain, 1870-1914 /edited with an introduction by A.R. HallAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (209 p.)Routledge library editions : banking & finance ;v. 16First published in 1968 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.1-138-00777-3 0-415-53893-9 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; 1 The Pattern of New British Portfolio Foreign Investment, 1865-19I4; 2 Migration and International Investment; 3 The Long Swing: Comparisons and Interactions Between British and American Balance of Payments, 1820-1913; 4 Overseas Lending and Internal Fluctuations, 1870\x=req-\ 1914; 5 Fluctuations in House-Building in Britain and the United States in the Nineteenth Century; 6 Capital Imports and the Composition of Investment in a Borrowing Country; 7 Investment in Canada, 1900-13; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYDuring the years before 1914 the world's still largely unused resources were brought increasingly within the framework of a single world economy. This process owed much to Britain's ability to export capital on a scale which has never since been equalled. Yet periods of heavy investment overseas alternated with home investment booms that absorbed the greater part of Britain's savings. The reasons for this fluctuation, and the mechanism which linked Britain's economic development with the rest of the world, are still subject to debate. This volume illuminates the problems of the global econoRoutledge Library Editions: Banking & FinanceInvestments, BritishHistoryInvestmentsGreat BritainHistoryInvestments, BritishHistory.InvestmentsHistory.332.67Hall Alan Ross1539799MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786589103321The export of capital from Britain, 1870-19143790912UNINA