LEADER 02533oam 2200589I 450 001 9910453689603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-415-60705-1 010 $a1-315-88889-0 010 $a1-134-55827-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315888897 035 $a(CKB)2550000001131361 035 $a(EBL)1474716 035 $a(OCoLC)870591408 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001157535 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11650845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001157535 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11208936 035 $a(PQKB)10755396 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1474716 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1474716 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10786670 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL531070 035 $a(OCoLC)861199870 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001131361 100 $a20180706e20031981 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnterprise and trade in Victorian Britain $eessays in historical economics /$fDonald N. McCloskey 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (441 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge library editions. Economics. Economic history ;$vIII 300 $aFirst published in 1981. 311 $a0-415-31305-8 311 $a1-299-99819-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apart one. The method of historical economics -- part two. Enterprise in late Victorian Britain -- part three. Britain in the world economy, 1846-1913. 330 $aThe essays in this book focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-nineteenth century and the First World War. The overriding theme is that Britain's own resources were consistently more productive, more resilient and more successful than is normally assumed. And if the economy's achievement was considerable, the influence on it of external factors (trade, international competition, policy) were much less significant than is normally supposed.
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