The export of capital from Britain, 1870-1914 / / edited with an introduction by A.R. Hall

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.67
• Soggetto topico: Investments, British - History; Investments - Great Britain - History
• Altri autori: HallAlan Ross
• Note generali: First published in 1968 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Sommario/riassunto: During 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 econo
• Titolo autorizzato: The export of capital from Britain, 1870-1914
• ISBN: 0-203-10871-X; 1-283-86203-4; 1-136-26703-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786589103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance